Leonora: or, Characters drawn from real life

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Thomas Davies, 1745
 

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Page 365 - ... he does the work of thofe that hate him, and will be fure to feel the pangs of refentment, and forego the enjoyment of a tranquil mind, and a confcience void of offence, fo feelingly defcribed in this fentence of lord Bacon : ' Certainly it is heaven ' upon earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, ' reft in Providence, and turn upon the poles of
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Page 237 - Education ftamps on the ductile Mind, training it up to the narrow Rules impos'd by...
Page 287 - Palenefs fucceeded ; no Signs of Life appear'd , the unhappy Lover caught her in his Arms, fhewing all the Signs of Grief that could poflefs a Mind robb'd of Hope.
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