The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Part 2Robinson and Roberts, 1793 - English literature |
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... Such are the feveral tribes of the half - craz'd im- pertinents , pedants , perpetual talk - thefe precepts is rigorously punished . ers , men of form , the affected , and thole who affect to appear unaf- fected . If the madman is ...
... Such are the feveral tribes of the half - craz'd im- pertinents , pedants , perpetual talk - thefe precepts is rigorously punished . ers , men of form , the affected , and thole who affect to appear unaf- fected . If the madman is ...
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... Such is my hiftory , faid Marivaux , ployment of a week's uninterrupted fghing ; and , and in fpite of every en - leifure which I promife my felf dur- deavour to difregard the impreffion made en me by this adventure , I never can ...
... Such is my hiftory , faid Marivaux , ployment of a week's uninterrupted fghing ; and , and in fpite of every en - leifure which I promife my felf dur- deavour to difregard the impreffion made en me by this adventure , I never can ...
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... Such were at all times our warlike maxims . Think now , therefore , only of getting thyself cured , and taking care of this habi- tation during my abfence , which I confide to thee . " It was in vain for St. Caftins to make a reply ...
... Such were at all times our warlike maxims . Think now , therefore , only of getting thyself cured , and taking care of this habi- tation during my abfence , which I confide to thee . " It was in vain for St. Caftins to make a reply ...
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... Such was the force of a fuperftitious custom , facred from time immemorial among thefe people , If , in the fpace of forty Lays , a widow who has loft her hufband , fees and fpeaks to him twice fuccellively in a dream , fhe infers from ...
... Such was the force of a fuperftitious custom , facred from time immemorial among thefe people , If , in the fpace of forty Lays , a widow who has loft her hufband , fees and fpeaks to him twice fuccellively in a dream , fhe infers from ...
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... Such are particularly the maxims of the Iroquois . There was , therefore , reafon to prefume , that Ouabi had died of his wounds , or was burnt by that barbarous nation . Azakia believed it to be fo more than any other : but St. Caftins ...
... Such are particularly the maxims of the Iroquois . There was , therefore , reafon to prefume , that Ouabi had died of his wounds , or was burnt by that barbarous nation . Azakia believed it to be fo more than any other : but St. Caftins ...
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