...fortune, grid, sickness, and old age, do generally fail. Whence conies the custom of bidding a woman look upon her apron strings to find an excuse ? Was it...often wonder to see them not ashamed. • Do not we sec how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies ; why...

...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse ? 'Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage, as vanity; nor...

...fortune, grief, sickness, and old age, do generally fail. Whence comes the custom of bidding a woman look upon her apron strings to find an excuse ? Was it...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own duloess? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage, as vanity; nor...

...fortune, grief, sickness, and old age, do generally fail. Whence comes the custom of bidding a woman look upon her apron strings to find an excuse ? Was it...not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and pasbions, and the very infirmities of our bodies ; why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our...

...or despair; for poverty, imprisonment, ill fortune, grief, sickness, and old age,do generally fail. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Do we not see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies...

...bidding a woman look upon her apron-strings to find an excuse? Was it not from the apron of fig-leaves worn by Eve, when she covered herself, and was the...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness ? There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage, as vanity ; nor...

...need be under no apprehensions of wanting statesmen, generals, and soldiers. — Goldsmith. DXCIII. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own dulness. — Swift. DXCIV. There are few men who are not ambitious of distinguishing themselves in...

..."Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chest full, and makes no more use of them than I." I never wonder to see men wicked ; but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them ; as he, who in a melancholy...

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...be under no appre-- hensions of wanting statesmen, generals, and soldiers. — x Goldsmith' DXCAl. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions...why should it be wonderful to find us pardon our own d ulness. —Swift. Dxciy. There are few men who are not ambitious of distinguishing themselves in...