The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Part 1Robinson and Roberts, 1793 - English literature |
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... town of Rabate . As to the ufe of tobacco , an article which can be more easily dispensed with , it is pu- nifhed with still greater feverity . In this cafe the offender feldom capes death ; gunpowder is ftuffed into his mouth and fet ...
... town of Rabate . As to the ufe of tobacco , an article which can be more easily dispensed with , it is pu- nifhed with still greater feverity . In this cafe the offender feldom capes death ; gunpowder is ftuffed into his mouth and fet ...
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... town of North- ampton . A variety of remarkable circumstances were told us of him at Eaton . After enjoying the esteem and protection of lord Halifax , he died 6th January 1702 , precifely four years before I was born . The recital that ...
... town of North- ampton . A variety of remarkable circumstances were told us of him at Eaton . After enjoying the esteem and protection of lord Halifax , he died 6th January 1702 , precifely four years before I was born . The recital that ...
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... Town in the illand of Nantucket . confidering befides , as he faid to his friends in my prefence , the few re- fources which fuch a career pro- mifed , he renounced his first in- tentions , took me from college , and fent me to a fchool ...
... Town in the illand of Nantucket . confidering befides , as he faid to his friends in my prefence , the few re- fources which fuch a career pro- mifed , he renounced his first in- tentions , took me from college , and fent me to a fchool ...
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... town , or the church to which he belonged , and who paid great deference to his judgment and opinion . Individuals were in the habit of confulting hun in different cafs , and he was tre quenly chofen as the arbiter between contending ...
... town , or the church to which he belonged , and who paid great deference to his judgment and opinion . Individuals were in the habit of confulting hun in different cafs , and he was tre quenly chofen as the arbiter between contending ...
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... town to fell them ,. The first had a prodi- gious fale , because the event was re- cent , and had made a great noise . This fuccefs was flattering to my courage , by turning my productions into ridicule , and telling me that verfifiers ...
... town to fell them ,. The first had a prodi- gious fale , because the event was re- cent , and had made a great noise . This fuccefs was flattering to my courage , by turning my productions into ridicule , and telling me that verfifiers ...
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Page 43 - I beg all those whom I have offended, through inadvertency, (for I do not recollect having ever intentionally offended any one) and also those to whom I may have given a bad example, to forgive me for the evil which such conduct may have produced. I beseech all those who are endowed with charity, to join their prayers with mine, to obtain of God the pardon of my iniquities. I pardon, with my whole heart, those who have become my enemies without cause, and I pray God to pardon them; as also those...
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