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... mean a re- former of manners , I know no person more proper to be applied to for redress in all the grievances we suffer from want of manners in some people . You must know , I am a single woman , and keep a shop in this town for a ...
... mean a re- former of manners , I know no person more proper to be applied to for redress in all the grievances we suffer from want of manners in some people . You must know , I am a single woman , and keep a shop in this town for a ...
Page 19
... means you may , at any time , without offence , deliver yourself from being detained from your affairs by tedious and unseasonable visits ; and from being constrained to use that piece of hypocrisy , so common in the world , of pressing ...
... means you may , at any time , without offence , deliver yourself from being detained from your affairs by tedious and unseasonable visits ; and from being constrained to use that piece of hypocrisy , so common in the world , of pressing ...
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... means , to this province . You must know , that such have been the circumstances of my life , and such were the marvellous concurrences of my birth , that I have not only a faculty of discovering the ac- tions of persons that are absent ...
... means , to this province . You must know , that such have been the circumstances of my life , and such were the marvellous concurrences of my birth , that I have not only a faculty of discovering the ac- tions of persons that are absent ...
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... means laid down in the immortal authors before - mentioned , and , when they failed , the ingenious Mr. P - d- , with his mercurial wand and magnet , I have still failed in my purpose . This , therefore , I send , to propose and desire ...
... means laid down in the immortal authors before - mentioned , and , when they failed , the ingenious Mr. P - d- , with his mercurial wand and magnet , I have still failed in my purpose . This , therefore , I send , to propose and desire ...
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... mean by that , Philocles ? You men of reason and virtue are always dealing in mysteries , though you laugh at them when the church makes them . I think he loves himself very well , and very judiciously too , as you call it , who allows ...
... mean by that , Philocles ? You men of reason and virtue are always dealing in mysteries , though you laugh at them when the church makes them . I think he loves himself very well , and very judiciously too , as you call it , who allows ...
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