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... spirit , with a view of raising their half of the species to a level with the other in the un- bounded licence of their enjoyments . By this arti- fice the most open violation of modesty takes the name of innocent freedom and gaiety ...
... spirit , with a view of raising their half of the species to a level with the other in the un- bounded licence of their enjoyments . By this arti- fice the most open violation of modesty takes the name of innocent freedom and gaiety ...
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... spirit ! An English wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl , may assume more than the privileges of a woman ; may trifle publicly with the beaux and smarts , in- troduce them to her toilette , and fix it as a certain rule in all ...
... spirit ! An English wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl , may assume more than the privileges of a woman ; may trifle publicly with the beaux and smarts , in- troduce them to her toilette , and fix it as a certain rule in all ...
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... spirits , will rise and fall according to the desires and affections of the wearer . He will very shortly publish a large assortment of them , to be sold at his shop on Lud- gate - hill and I flatter myself there are many wo- men in ...
... spirits , will rise and fall according to the desires and affections of the wearer . He will very shortly publish a large assortment of them , to be sold at his shop on Lud- gate - hill and I flatter myself there are many wo- men in ...
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... spirits were quite depressed ; he had a violent palpitation of the heart ; and the whole nervous system was relaxed . I would have prescribed the well known diet - drink brought into practise by the late Bishop of Cloyne ; but he told ...
... spirits were quite depressed ; he had a violent palpitation of the heart ; and the whole nervous system was relaxed . I would have prescribed the well known diet - drink brought into practise by the late Bishop of Cloyne ; but he told ...
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... spirits , and loss of appetite : consequently the same regimen may serve for all . I advise them to use a great deal of exercise in driving about the town , to dilute properly with tea , to perspire freely at public places , and in ...
... spirits , and loss of appetite : consequently the same regimen may serve for all . I advise them to use a great deal of exercise in driving about the town , to dilute properly with tea , to perspire freely at public places , and in ...
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Strona xl - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Strona 121 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Strona 35 - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
Strona 132 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Strona 65 - Before my dying day. But we will have a merry jeast, For to be talked long : You shall make me a bond...
Strona 62 - ... carried off an immense booty. This account came in a private letter to Paul Secchi, a very considerable merchant in the City, who had large concerns in those parts, which he had insured. Upon receiving this news, he sent for the insurer, Sampson Ceneda, a Jew, and acquainted him with it.
Strona xxxiii - This coffee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bans mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance at the theatres, weighed and determined.
Strona 295 - I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers...
Strona 64 - Nor ever yet did any good To them in streets that lie. His life was like a barrow hogge, That liveth many a day, Yet never once doth any good, Until men will him slay. Or like a filthy heap of dung, That lyeth in a whoard ; Which never can do any good, Till it be spread abroad.
Strona 28 - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.