Zeluca; Or, Educated and Uneducated Women: A Novel ...

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Página 36 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
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Página 164 - ... violence of mankind, is sufficiently lively to gratify this propensity, so long as the triumph is recent, and the hazards still visible from which it has effected our deliverance. In like manner, while it is a new thing, and somewhat of a distinction, to be able to laugh gracefully at all things, the successful derision of affection and enthusiasm is found to do pretty nearly as well as their possession; and hearts comfortably hardened by dissipation feel little want of gratifications which they...

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