The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... daughter ; and when I think how many children of that sort I have lost - for there are a thousand ways of a beauty's dying - it almost brings tears into my eyes . Then they are so spoiled while they do live . Here I am as splenetic as ...
... daughter ; and when I think how many children of that sort I have lost - for there are a thousand ways of a beauty's dying - it almost brings tears into my eyes . Then they are so spoiled while they do live . Here I am as splenetic as ...
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... daughters I am attempting to educate under my own eye , as the present boarding schools and governesses are much too expensive for people of our moderate fortune . I find so much pleasure in superintending every part of my daughters ...
... daughters I am attempting to educate under my own eye , as the present boarding schools and governesses are much too expensive for people of our moderate fortune . I find so much pleasure in superintending every part of my daughters ...
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my daughters ' education , that not an hour of the day is unemployed , or can hang heavy on my hands : but alas , sir , how cruelly teasing is it , when I am set down to hear my youngest girl read , with Eliza and Mary at their work ...
my daughters ' education , that not an hour of the day is unemployed , or can hang heavy on my hands : but alas , sir , how cruelly teasing is it , when I am set down to hear my youngest girl read , with Eliza and Mary at their work ...
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... daughter of a neighbouring gentleman , and till of late years lived at home , satisfied with the society of my friends and neighbours . I found my fortune fully sufficient for my purposes ; and was in hopes that I might provide decently ...
... daughter of a neighbouring gentleman , and till of late years lived at home , satisfied with the society of my friends and neighbours . I found my fortune fully sufficient for my purposes ; and was in hopes that I might provide decently ...
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... daughters should learn to be ladies . Accordingly , when the eldest was about thirteen , and the other about twelve years of age , they both left my house in the country , and were placed in a boarding - school of the first reputation ...
... daughters should learn to be ladies . Accordingly , when the eldest was about thirteen , and the other about twelve years of age , they both left my house in the country , and were placed in a boarding - school of the first reputation ...
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