The Works of Hannah More, Volumen3Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... ladies of this country over those of every other . But such is , in general , the state of foreign manners , that the comparative praise is almost an injury to English women . To be flattered for ex- celling those whose standard of ...
... ladies of this country over those of every other . But such is , in general , the state of foreign manners , that the comparative praise is almost an injury to English women . To be flattered for ex- celling those whose standard of ...
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... ladies , who are often unreasonably confident where they ought to be diffident , are sometimes capriciously diffident just when they ought to feel where their true importance lies ; and , feeling , to exert it . To use their boasted ...
... ladies , who are often unreasonably confident where they ought to be diffident , are sometimes capriciously diffident just when they ought to feel where their true importance lies ; and , feeling , to exert it . To use their boasted ...
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... ladies , are almost too minute to be pointed out . Yet of the good which right - minded women , anxi- ously watching these minute occasions , and adroitly seizing them , might accomplish , we may form some idea by the ill effects which ...
... ladies , are almost too minute to be pointed out . Yet of the good which right - minded women , anxi- ously watching these minute occasions , and adroitly seizing them , might accomplish , we may form some idea by the ill effects which ...
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... ladies of ton have certain watch - words , which may be detected as indications of this spirit . The clergy are spoken of under the contemptuous appellation of the parsons . Some ludicrous association is infal- libly combined with every ...
... ladies of ton have certain watch - words , which may be detected as indications of this spirit . The clergy are spoken of under the contemptuous appellation of the parsons . Some ludicrous association is infal- libly combined with every ...
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... ladies who take the lead in society , are loudly called upon to act as the guardians of the public taste , as well as of the public virtue . They are called upon , therefore , to oppose with the whole weight of their influence , the ...
... ladies who take the lead in society , are loudly called upon to act as the guardians of the public taste , as well as of the public virtue . They are called upon , therefore , to oppose with the whole weight of their influence , the ...
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