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Nantes, paying the Workmen their Wages, Gratifications and
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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I wish it had: and most who love Poetry, and respect Genius, and are anxious to preserve the little innocent Gratifications of the Poor, will have the same wish.
An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield
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_Thirty-two Gratifications_, and innumerable other volumes which he found instructive.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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To these laudable Distinctions let me add one more; that of Publick Applause, which, when truly merited, is perhaps one of the most agreeable Gratifications that venial Vanity can feel.
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Gratifications which can only be procured at the hazard of men's lives are too dearly bought.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Gratifications for a benevolent temper are scattered by Providence widely and thickly over every quarter of the earth, and its possessor never long wants occasions for one of those feasts of the heart which only such as he can know.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
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Physical Gratifications should always be subordinate to Social, Intellectual, and Moral Advantages.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Though he had a very important War upon his Hands, it did not divert him from the Gratifications of Love; he left the entire Management of every
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742
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_David_ in the Sins of Murder and Adultery: On the contrary, if I am not of that Number which shall be saved, all my Pains and Obedience will never procure me Acceptance with God, and therefore I _will seek_ all possible Gratifications in this Life, seeing it is the only Time and Place wherein I can obtain any Thing like Happiness; nor can the Liberty I take here increase my Misery hereafter, the
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– The Passion he profess'd for her, was not of that humble Nature which can be content with distant Adorations: – He resolv'd not to part from her without the Gratifications of those Desires she had inspir'd; and presuming on the Liberties which her suppos'd Function allow'd off, told her she must either go with him to some convenient House of his procuring, or permit him to wait on her to her own
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze, Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition 1725
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