The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, 2. osaRobinson and Roberts, 1795 |
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... virtues , and all our religious fcru- ples as infular prejudices ; and if Englishmen were to permit them to no longer fear from the adoption of fuch fentiments , the establishment of arbitrary power , with its long and luxurious ...
... virtues , and all our religious fcru- ples as infular prejudices ; and if Englishmen were to permit them to no longer fear from the adoption of fuch fentiments , the establishment of arbitrary power , with its long and luxurious ...
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... virtue .鼻 Were we strictly to examine the conduct of our greatest men , both ancient and modern ; could we lay view them in every part , it would open their hearts before us , and in moft cales appear , that ambition was their grand ...
... virtue .鼻 Were we strictly to examine the conduct of our greatest men , both ancient and modern ; could we lay view them in every part , it would open their hearts before us , and in moft cales appear , that ambition was their grand ...
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... virtue , and purfue the original itfeif ; fenfible by experience , that this alone is the foundation of all their hopes . Inftead of complaining of what we conceive to be imperfections , we fhould confider , that , the great Being who ...
... virtue , and purfue the original itfeif ; fenfible by experience , that this alone is the foundation of all their hopes . Inftead of complaining of what we conceive to be imperfections , we fhould confider , that , the great Being who ...
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... virtues preffed forcibly on my heart . Fa- tigued near the end of my jour- ney , I threw myfelf on a bank , over whofe verdant furface lay scat- tered the primrofe and the violet , intermingled with other fweet - fmel- Save where the ...
... virtues preffed forcibly on my heart . Fa- tigued near the end of my jour- ney , I threw myfelf on a bank , over whofe verdant furface lay scat- tered the primrofe and the violet , intermingled with other fweet - fmel- Save where the ...
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... virtue is of too delicate a texture to fuffer long the rude blafts of this inhofpitable clime . It droops its head , and dies away , like the lily , nipped by the frozen gale . As religion confers upon virtue ftrength and permanen- cy ...
... virtue is of too delicate a texture to fuffer long the rude blafts of this inhofpitable clime . It droops its head , and dies away , like the lily , nipped by the frozen gale . As religion confers upon virtue ftrength and permanen- cy ...
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