The Female Spectator, Volume 2H. Gardner, 1771 - Etiquette for women |
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... virtues cannot sometimes be exercised without a mixture of it ; the strictest justice , the softest clemency , may betray some tincture of it , and what seems yet a greater paradox , there may hap- pen occafions , when to be truly ...
... virtues cannot sometimes be exercised without a mixture of it ; the strictest justice , the softest clemency , may betray some tincture of it , and what seems yet a greater paradox , there may hap- pen occafions , when to be truly ...
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... virtue , or greatness of mind . THESE refinings , even on the most worthy principles , these over - strainings of nature , are cer- tainly never of any advantage to the perfons them- telves , or those for whose fake they are supposed to ...
... virtue , or greatness of mind . THESE refinings , even on the most worthy principles , these over - strainings of nature , are cer- tainly never of any advantage to the perfons them- telves , or those for whose fake they are supposed to ...
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... virtue border upon vice , that they are sometimes confounded even by the breast that harbours them . We think that we ought to do every thing in our power for the per- fon who seems to love us , and is ready on allocca- sions at our ...
... virtue border upon vice , that they are sometimes confounded even by the breast that harbours them . We think that we ought to do every thing in our power for the per- fon who seems to love us , and is ready on allocca- sions at our ...
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... virtue . PEOPLE fometimes out of an excess of good .. nature , or a timid shamefacedness , think they may recede a little from their strictness , in compliance C3 1 १ with the defires of a person they have received fome. with more ...
... virtue . PEOPLE fometimes out of an excess of good .. nature , or a timid shamefacedness , think they may recede a little from their strictness , in compliance C3 1 १ with the defires of a person they have received fome. with more ...
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... virtue , justly demand our gratitude ; and we ought not only to acknowledge the obli- gations we owe to their integrity , but recompense it by all the acts of friendship in our power . Nor ought we to deny some gratitude due to our ...
... virtue , justly demand our gratitude ; and we ought not only to acknowledge the obli- gations we owe to their integrity , but recompense it by all the acts of friendship in our power . Nor ought we to deny some gratitude due to our ...
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