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On of my favorite records from the 70's is the Persuasions '"We Still Ain't Got No Band."
Michal Shapiro: The International Body Music Festival in NYC 2010
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On of my favorite records from the 70's is the Persuasions '"We Still Ain't Got No Band."
Michal Shapiro: The International Body Music Festival in NYC 2010
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But I remember a moment of epiphany: I went to see the Persuasions in New York, I guess about 1980, and I came back after the show, and he was up reading, and he said, "Well, how was it?"
First Person Singular: Birchmere promoter Michael Jaworek 2010
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But I remember a moment of epiphany: I went to see the Persuasions in New York, I guess about 1980, and I came back after the show, and he was up reading, and he said, "Well, how was it?"
First Person Singular: Birchmere promoter Michael Jaworek 2010
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Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America 13 (1991): 33-38.
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Parents took her home, in order to establish her in the World, by marrying her to some worthy Gentleman; of which there was one in the Neighbourhood, who greatly coveted this Espousal: But all the Persuasions of her Parents, joyn'd with the Gentleman's Courtship, availed nothing; she persisted in her Resolution of becoming a Religious Dame.
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This Constraint and Home − breeding began to be very tiresome to the young Lady; but no Persuasions could prevail with her Parents to relieve this her Country restraint, telling her, she must not think of going to
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Kinsman's Persuasions, than any real Affection for him; who being a little in Years, was not much capable of raising a Passion in a Heart not hospitable enough to receive a Guest of this kind; especially having found so much Trouble with those that had lodg'd there heretofore.
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Parents took her home, in order to establish her in the World, by marrying her to some worthy Gentleman; of which there was one in the Neighbourhood, who greatly coveted this Espousal: But all the Persuasions of her Parents, joyn'd with the Gentleman's Courtship, availed nothing; she persisted in her Resolution of becoming a Religious Dame.
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This Constraint and Home − breeding began to be very tiresome to the young Lady; but no Persuasions could prevail with her Parents to relieve this her Country restraint, telling her, she must not think of going to
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