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Page 121
It is not in the power of the wife to do a pleasing thing, nor in the mistress to
commit one that is disagreeable. There is something too melancholy in the
reflection on this circumstance, to be the subject of raillery. He said a sour thing to
Laura at ...
It is not in the power of the wife to do a pleasing thing, nor in the mistress to
commit one that is disagreeable. There is something too melancholy in the
reflection on this circumstance, to be the subject of raillery. He said a sour thing to
Laura at ...
Page 181
'Cown Ade,-I received yours, and am glad yourself and your wife are in good
health, with all the rest of my friends. Our battalion suffer. ed more than I could
wish in the action. But who can withstand fate 2 Poor Richard Stevenson had his
fate ...
'Cown Ade,-I received yours, and am glad yourself and your wife are in good
health, with all the rest of my friends. Our battalion suffer. ed more than I could
wish in the action. But who can withstand fate 2 Poor Richard Stevenson had his
fate ...
Page 224
My heart was torn in pieces, to see the husband on one side, suppressing and
keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of dis. turbing her in her last
moments; and the wife, even at that time, concealing the pains she endured, for
fear of ...
My heart was torn in pieces, to see the husband on one side, suppressing and
keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of dis. turbing her in her last
moments; and the wife, even at that time, concealing the pains she endured, for
fear of ...
Page 288
Many a country esquire, upon his setting up for a man of the town, has gone
home in the gayety of his heart, and beat his wife. A kind husband hath been
looked upon as a clown, and a good wife as a domestic animal unfit for the
company or ...
Many a country esquire, upon his setting up for a man of the town, has gone
home in the gayety of his heart, and beat his wife. A kind husband hath been
looked upon as a clown, and a good wife as a domestic animal unfit for the
company or ...
Page 296
The poor corporal, being condemned to die, wrote a letter to his wife when under
sentence of execution. He writ on the Thursday, and was to be executed on the
Friday: but, considering that the letter would not come to his wife's hands until ...
The poor corporal, being condemned to die, wrote a letter to his wife when under
sentence of execution. He writ on the Thursday, and was to be executed on the
Friday: but, considering that the letter would not come to his wife's hands until ...
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