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... I cannot take so severe a revenge With this thing called a husband I lived eight
years in good fashion , and for some part of the time kept a coach , that is to say ,
a kind of mock coach ; for all the week the horses were kept at work in the dray ...
... I cannot take so severe a revenge With this thing called a husband I lived eight
years in good fashion , and for some part of the time kept a coach , that is to say ,
a kind of mock coach ; for all the week the horses were kept at work in the dray ...
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In the next place , there are so many sorts of fools , such an infinite variety of fools
, and so hard it is to know the worst of the kind , that I am obliged to say , No fool ,
ladies , at all , no kind of fool , whether a mad fool or a sober fool , a wise fool ...
In the next place , there are so many sorts of fools , such an infinite variety of fools
, and so hard it is to know the worst of the kind , that I am obliged to say , No fool ,
ladies , at all , no kind of fool , whether a mad fool or a sober fool , a wise fool ...
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There was a poor woman that had been a kind of a dependent upon our family ,
and who I had often , among the rest of the relations , been very kind to ; my maid
put it into my head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether
...
There was a poor woman that had been a kind of a dependent upon our family ,
and who I had often , among the rest of the relations , been very kind to ; my maid
put it into my head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether
...
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... kind indeed , after he came to know my circumstances , though , before he was
acquainted with that part , he had gone so far as to seize my goods , and to carry
some of them off too . But I had lived three quarters of a year in his house after ...
... kind indeed , after he came to know my circumstances , though , before he was
acquainted with that part , he had gone so far as to seize my goods , and to carry
some of them off too . But I had lived three quarters of a year in his house after ...
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Nay , says I , that's a hard thing too , that we should judge a man to be wicked
because he's charitable ; and vicious because he's kind . O madam , says Amy ,
there's abundance of charity begins in that vice ; and he is not so unacquainted
with ...
Nay , says I , that's a hard thing too , that we should judge a man to be wicked
because he's charitable ; and vicious because he's kind . O madam , says Amy ,
there's abundance of charity begins in that vice ; and he is not so unacquainted
with ...
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| Title | Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe |
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
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