Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... never venture upon an indecent or abusive article without a preface of pretended horror at the irreligion , indeco- rum , and personality , of some unacceptable contem- porary . Thus the Viscount de S , which is the nom de guerre ...
... never venture upon an indecent or abusive article without a preface of pretended horror at the irreligion , indeco- rum , and personality , of some unacceptable contem- porary . Thus the Viscount de S , which is the nom de guerre ...
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... never reads any thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a pullet is well dressed . A solid and discreet man , who ties the matri- monial knot with a woman of this description , understands his true interests ...
... never reads any thing but her cook's bill of fare , and knows to a nicety when a pullet is well dressed . A solid and discreet man , who ties the matri- monial knot with a woman of this description , understands his true interests ...
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... never more vehemently inflamed two hearts already united by the bonds of sympathy ; nevertheless the father , having learnt the folly of his daughter , formally declared , in an angry letter , that she must prepare to renounce her ...
... never more vehemently inflamed two hearts already united by the bonds of sympathy ; nevertheless the father , having learnt the folly of his daughter , formally declared , in an angry letter , that she must prepare to renounce her ...
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... never given more objectionable advice . Upon the subject of education , he disserteth after the following fashion : " In bestowing a brilliant education upon a girl whose whole fortune consists in the pride of her superficial learning ...
... never given more objectionable advice . Upon the subject of education , he disserteth after the following fashion : " In bestowing a brilliant education upon a girl whose whole fortune consists in the pride of her superficial learning ...
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... never be able to make any water - gruel for her husband in case he should fall sick . What have mythology , the Dryads and Hamadryads , Pan and the Fauns , Endymion and the Moon , to do in a but- cher's or grocer's shop ? and why should ...
... never be able to make any water - gruel for her husband in case he should fall sick . What have mythology , the Dryads and Hamadryads , Pan and the Fauns , Endymion and the Moon , to do in a but- cher's or grocer's shop ? and why should ...
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