The History of Portia: Written by a Lady. ...R. Withy; J. Pottinger; J. Wilkie; and J. Cooke, 1759 |
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... merit confifts in her being unknown , except amidst the circle of her own im- mediate connections ; for too familiar an intercourfe with the World feldom fails to deftroy that timid foftnefs , that de- licacy of female chaftity , that ...
... merit confifts in her being unknown , except amidst the circle of her own im- mediate connections ; for too familiar an intercourfe with the World feldom fails to deftroy that timid foftnefs , that de- licacy of female chaftity , that ...
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... merit , has already affured us that Our faireft virtues fly from public fight , Domestic worth , that fhuns too ftrong a light . I look upon it as an unpardonable weakness , in the character of a good woman , to defire to be much known ...
... merit , has already affured us that Our faireft virtues fly from public fight , Domestic worth , that fhuns too ftrong a light . I look upon it as an unpardonable weakness , in the character of a good woman , to defire to be much known ...
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... merit had never been the object of ; but this , alas ! he fought in vain ; for he was foon convinced that merely by the force of an improper education Belinda had been fo long habituated to a courfe of levity , and the abfence of all ...
... merit had never been the object of ; but this , alas ! he fought in vain ; for he was foon convinced that merely by the force of an improper education Belinda had been fo long habituated to a courfe of levity , and the abfence of all ...
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... merit from thence , than one fine fea- ture in a face can justly be allow'd to con- ftitute the effence of beauty , when all the reft happen to be extremely plain ; the con- ftant ufe of the cofmetick changes defor- mity itself into ...
... merit from thence , than one fine fea- ture in a face can justly be allow'd to con- ftitute the effence of beauty , when all the reft happen to be extremely plain ; the con- ftant ufe of the cofmetick changes defor- mity itself into ...
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... merit of female virtue feems to be , either gene- rally misunderstood , or estimated merely as an object of contempt ; for how un- animously foever the fair may poffibly admire it in fpeculation , yet from the conduct of most of them ...
... merit of female virtue feems to be , either gene- rally misunderstood , or estimated merely as an object of contempt ; for how un- animously foever the fair may poffibly admire it in fpeculation , yet from the conduct of most of them ...
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