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Contentment not a virtue ! contentment not bonum in se !! contentment not as necessary to individual comfort , as to ... and we shall be contented to admit that you are right , and that we are wrong ; otherwise , be not offended that we ...
Contentment not a virtue ! contentment not bonum in se !! contentment not as necessary to individual comfort , as to ... and we shall be contented to admit that you are right , and that we are wrong ; otherwise , be not offended that we ...
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obvious that although every man has a right to be contented for his own account , on his own terms , he has none whatever to impose his content- ment on others ; and the moment he has saddled himself with a wife and family , he has ...
obvious that although every man has a right to be contented for his own account , on his own terms , he has none whatever to impose his content- ment on others ; and the moment he has saddled himself with a wife and family , he has ...
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Again , had our cotton lords been contented with wheel - spinning and hand - looming , who would have paid for putting Boney on a peace establishment ? or belted the world with calicoes ? Nay , for the matter of that , if the inventors ...
Again , had our cotton lords been contented with wheel - spinning and hand - looming , who would have paid for putting Boney on a peace establishment ? or belted the world with calicoes ? Nay , for the matter of that , if the inventors ...
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Contents
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Correspondence of Lady Hester Stanhope from Turkey Syria | 22 |
The Barnabys in America By Mrs Trollope continued 33 161 301 496 | 33 |
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