English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... town , and fell in love with the ladies , but especially three , who about that time were in chief reputation : the Duchess d'Argent , Madame de Grands Titres , and the Countess d'Orgueil . On their first appearance our three ...
... town , and fell in love with the ladies , but especially three , who about that time were in chief reputation : the Duchess d'Argent , Madame de Grands Titres , and the Countess d'Orgueil . On their first appearance our three ...
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... town fops , and now and then a drunken squire of the country . There- fore nothing can be plainer than that ig- norance and vice are two ingredients ab- solutely necessary in the composition of those you generally call freethinkers ...
... town fops , and now and then a drunken squire of the country . There- fore nothing can be plainer than that ig- norance and vice are two ingredients ab- solutely necessary in the composition of those you generally call freethinkers ...
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... town , in the di- versions , fashion , follies , and vices of which they are immediately initiated . In this academy some finish their studies , while others by their wiser parents are sent abroad to add the knowledge of the diversions ...
... town , in the di- versions , fashion , follies , and vices of which they are immediately initiated . In this academy some finish their studies , while others by their wiser parents are sent abroad to add the knowledge of the diversions ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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