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... fortunes lavished without credit or enjoyment , " every relative and perfonal duty neglected , and Reli- " gion boldly fet at defiance . To be admitted into the company of those who difgrace the family title which " they inherit ...
... fortunes lavished without credit or enjoyment , " every relative and perfonal duty neglected , and Reli- " gion boldly fet at defiance . To be admitted into the company of those who difgrace the family title which " they inherit ...
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... fortune , are not able to draw her from the fide of her good old father . Certain it is , that there is no kind of affection affection fo pure and angelic as that of a father. Filial Affection ; the Story of Fidelia . B 3 ( 17 )
... fortune , are not able to draw her from the fide of her good old father . Certain it is , that there is no kind of affection affection fo pure and angelic as that of a father. Filial Affection ; the Story of Fidelia . B 3 ( 17 )
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... fortune and innocence , that there is perhaps a new cause of fondness arising from that confideration alfo . None but fathers can have a true sense of this fort of pleasures and fenfations . Fidelia , on her part , as accomplished as ...
... fortune and innocence , that there is perhaps a new cause of fondness arising from that confideration alfo . None but fathers can have a true sense of this fort of pleasures and fenfations . Fidelia , on her part , as accomplished as ...
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... fortune , or converfation , yet to contemn all these enter- tainments , to fweeten the heavy hours of a decrepid parent , is a refignation truly heroic . Fidelia performs the duty of a nurse with all the beauty of a bride ; nor does the ...
... fortune , or converfation , yet to contemn all these enter- tainments , to fweeten the heavy hours of a decrepid parent , is a refignation truly heroic . Fidelia performs the duty of a nurse with all the beauty of a bride ; nor does the ...
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... fortune . If we may form 2 judgment from the divorces and feparations which happen in the gay world , we may conclude , that the prefent manners are highly unfavourable to conjugal felicity . And we fee , confiftently with my theory ...
... fortune . If we may form 2 judgment from the divorces and feparations which happen in the gay world , we may conclude , that the prefent manners are highly unfavourable to conjugal felicity . And we fee , confiftently with my theory ...
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