 ... which once belonged to us, has undermined our independence, and left our virtue defenceless. All would be Statesmen, Philosophers or people of fashion. All, too, run to London. The woods and fields are unpeopled ; the plain mansions and plain manners...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page ivby Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
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...fields are unpeopled ; the plain mansions and plain manners of our fathers deserted and changed ; everj thing is swallowed up by a devouring dissipation; and the simplicities of life are only to be foilnd in books. Yet it is the proper blending of the simplicities of life with its elegancies, the... | |
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