... good effect on the conduct of those polite people, who are too sagacious, learned, and courageous, to be kept in awe by the threats of hell and damnation: and I exhort every fine lady to consider how wretched will be her condition, if, after twenty... Select British Classics - Page 501803Full view - About this book
| English essays - 1756 - 692 pages
...Tell me his companions, and I IN'I LETTERS, to tit Royal** (hill know the man." Proverbs do not cvery fine gentleman to reflect how much more wretched would be his, if after wafting his eftnt , his health and his life in extravagance, indolence and luxury, he Should again... | |
| 1756 - 602 pages
...fires and fort carpets, fhe mould at laft be obliged to change places with, one of her coach-horfes ; and every fine gentleman to reflect how much more wretched would be his, if after wafting his eftate, his health, and his life in extravagance, indolence, and luxury, he mould again... | |
| Soame Jenyns - Good and evil - 1770 - 468 pages
...fires and foft carpets, Ihe fhould at laft be obliged to change places with one of her coach-horfes , and every fine gentleman to reflect how much more wretched would be his, if after wafting his eftate, his health and his life in extravagance, indolence and luxury, he mould again revive... | |
| 1776 - 306 pages
...fires and foft carpets, fhe fhould at laft be obliged to change places with one of her coach-horfes : and every fine gentleman to reflect how much more wretched would be his, if, after wafting his eftate, his health, and his life.in extravagance, indolence, and luxury, he lhould again... | |
| Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 324 pages
...fires and foft carpets, fhe fhould at laft be obliged to change places with one of her coach-horfes j and every fine gentleman to reflect how much more wretched would be his, if after wafting his eftate, his health, and his life in extravagance, indolence, and luxury, he fhould again... | |
| Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1791 - 484 pages
...fires and foft carpets, me fhould at laft be obliged to change places with one of her coach-horfes; and every fine gentleman to reflect; how much more wretched would be his, if after wafting his eftate, his health, and his life in extravagance, indolence, and luxury, he fhould again... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 322 pages
...•wretched will be her condition, if, after twenty or thirty years spent at cards, in elegant rooms, kept •warm by good fires and soft carpets, she should...again revive in the situation of one of his creditors. Ko. 164. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1756, I HAVE set apart this day's paper for the miscel-. laneous productions... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 314 pages
...years spent at cards, in elegant rooms, kept warm by good fires and soft carpets, she should at .la t be obliged to change places with one of her ;coach-horses...extravagance, indolence, and luxury, he should .again Irevive in the situation of one of his creditors. ; No. lot. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY !<>, 1756. •1 HATE... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...wretched will be her condition, if, after twenty or thirty years spent at cards, in elegant rooms, kept warm by good fires and soft carpets, she should...again revive in the situation of one of his creditors. N" 164. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1756. I HAVE set apart this day's paper for the miscellaneous productions... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 866 pages
...howwretched will be her condition, if, after twenty or thirty years spent at cards, in elegant rooms, kept warm by good fires and soft carpets, she should...indolence, and luxury, he should again revive in the MI nation of one of his creditors. No. 16*. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1756. I HAvE set apart this day's... | |
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