Mentoria, Or, The Young Ladies Instructor: In Familiar Conversations on Moral and Entertaining Subjects : Calculated to Improve Young Minds, in the Essential, as Well as Ornamental, Parts of Female Education |
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... Zones . 77 DIALOGUE . VI . On History ; its importance and ufe ; divided into the claffes of Sacred , Prophane , Na- tural , and Biographical ; the advantages of each manifefted , and the whole con- cluded with the Life of Romulus and ...
... Zones . 77 DIALOGUE . VI . On History ; its importance and ufe ; divided into the claffes of Sacred , Prophane , Na- tural , and Biographical ; the advantages of each manifefted , and the whole con- cluded with the Life of Romulus and ...
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... Zones . Lady Mary . I think , I have read of people wearing zones ; fo that it appears not probable , any part of drefs can have the least connection with Geography . Mentoria . Zone fignifies a girdle , or any thing which encompaffes ...
... Zones . Lady Mary . I think , I have read of people wearing zones ; fo that it appears not probable , any part of drefs can have the least connection with Geography . Mentoria . Zone fignifies a girdle , or any thing which encompaffes ...
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... zones ; and are diftinguished by the Northern tempe- rate zone , and the Southern temperate zone . Under the former England is fituated , Spain , France , Germany , Italy , Scotland , Ireland , the greatest part of Norway , Sweden , Den ...
... zones ; and are diftinguished by the Northern tempe- rate zone , and the Southern temperate zone . Under the former England is fituated , Spain , France , Germany , Italy , Scotland , Ireland , the greatest part of Norway , Sweden , Den ...
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... zones derive their name , from their fituation being intensely cold . Un- der the North frozen zone , Greenland and Spitzbergen are fituated , famous for the whale- fishery ; with the greatest part of Tartary , the points of Norway and ...
... zones derive their name , from their fituation being intensely cold . Un- der the North frozen zone , Greenland and Spitzbergen are fituated , famous for the whale- fishery ; with the greatest part of Tartary , the points of Norway and ...
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... zone . Mentoria . Be not hafty in your determination ; always hear both fides of the question , before you de termine in favour of either . I am inclined to think , I should ftand neuter ; though I do not mean to bias your judgment ...
... zone . Mentoria . Be not hafty in your determination ; always hear both fides of the question , before you de termine in favour of either . I am inclined to think , I should ftand neuter ; though I do not mean to bias your judgment ...
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againſt alfo alſo Amulius attention becauſe beſt bleffings called caufe cauſe circumftance confequence confifts converfation courfe courſe darkneſs dear Lady Louifa dear Lady Mary dear Madam dear Mentoria defire deſerve duty earth endeavour Epicene exprefs faid fame fcience feem fenfe fentiments fervice feven fhall fhould fide fignifies fincerity firft fituation fome foon friends frigid zone ftate fubject fuch fuppofe greateſt hiftory hope houſe Induſtry inftance inftructions Lady Lady Louifa leaft leffon lefs Lord George Lycurgus Mark Antony means ment mind moft moſt muſt myſelf nature neceffary never notwithſtanding Numitor obfervations Parable perfons perform pleaſed pleaſure poffefs poffible praiſe Pray prefent produce puniſhment purpoſe purſue purſuits reafon requeſt reſpect Romulus ROMULUS and REMUS Ruffia ſenſe ſhall Spartan ſpeak ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion toria ufually underſtand uſeful virtue whilft whofe wiſh word yourſelf zone
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Page 133 - ... of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come unto him.
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Page 124 - ... the ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it.
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Page 65 - What if lhe foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? What if the head, the eye. or ear, repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling mind? Juft as abfurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame: Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tafks or pains, The great directing MIND OF ALL Ordains.
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