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The wounds that Fashion , Vice , and Folly , Have deeply inflicted on our fallen race , Much need the Probe . - AUTHOR . With an Appendix , Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year. CONTAINING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ...
The wounds that Fashion , Vice , and Folly , Have deeply inflicted on our fallen race , Much need the Probe . - AUTHOR . With an Appendix , Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year. CONTAINING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ...
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Page 64 65 68 70 72 74 FAME and Glory , distinction between FANATICISM , mischiefs of Fashion , a cruel tyrant .. Fires , brief history of - one at Pittsburgh . FLATTERY , meanness of FRIENDSHIP , cautions relative to 77 86 87 89 92 ...
Page 64 65 68 70 72 74 FAME and Glory , distinction between FANATICISM , mischiefs of Fashion , a cruel tyrant .. Fires , brief history of - one at Pittsburgh . FLATTERY , meanness of FRIENDSHIP , cautions relative to 77 86 87 89 92 ...
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... corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene . Fashion contributes largely to swell the upper current , now rolling its towering waves over our land .
... corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene . Fashion contributes largely to swell the upper current , now rolling its towering waves over our land .
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FASHION . Loveliness Needs not the aid of foreign ornaments , But is , when unadorn'd , adorn'd the most . — Thompson . We profess to be a Christian people , and are contributing , very sparingly to be sure , to the laudable enterprise ...
FASHION . Loveliness Needs not the aid of foreign ornaments , But is , when unadorn'd , adorn'd the most . — Thompson . We profess to be a Christian people , and are contributing , very sparingly to be sure , to the laudable enterprise ...
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... or fool's cap for the hea i , she is obsequiously obeyed by the exquisitely fashionable ladies , and lauded by their ' eaux . If she orders her male subjects to produce a crop of corns on their feet with tight FASHION . 75.
... or fool's cap for the hea i , she is obsequiously obeyed by the exquisitely fashionable ladies , and lauded by their ' eaux . If she orders her male subjects to produce a crop of corns on their feet with tight FASHION . 75.
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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