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Not the Firft, becaufe I have (hewn you, That God's being the Caufe of our Pleafure is a fufficient and proper reafon why he fiiould be the Objed of our Love, not - withftanding that Pain which is alfo, but after a difrerent manner caused by him.
Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr ... 1705
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Pleafure - boats and trecht - ichuyts lined the mores: and the windows of every hcufc were thronged with broad faces* On the little terraces below were groups of fmokers, and of girls in the neat trim Etotch drefs, with the fair complexion and air of decorous modeity, by which their country. women are diftinguifhed. '
The Monthly Review 1795
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Stephen Hawes, in his Paftime of Pleafure had long before exhibited her in the fame manner,
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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And all the pale tribes halting in the train Of Vice and heedlefs Pleafure: or if aught 2®
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Speak; wilt thou Avarice, or Pleafure, chufe To be thy lord?
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Afford your Friends then the Pleafure of prefervrng theirs: and as you have made good all other Declarations, confirm our Opinion of your Veracity, by an Obfervance of this.
Tracts 1789
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A kind of facred interlude, in which Pleafure, Religion, Divine Grace, &c. are perfonlfied, and introduced to aft their leveral p. irts.
The Monthly Review 1789
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The Gentle - man, I now fpeak of, is an Enemy to Pleafure, indifferent to Honours, negligent of Wealth, as a Trifle he is about to leave, and eafy under the fmalleft Alotment of Fortune.
Tracts 1789
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Are they fo very pene - trating, why then do they envy me the Pleafure of this tranf - porting Error?
Tracts 1789
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And, beiides the Profic of Vhe InflraAions, there is no fmall Pleafure in being taught any proper Science, at the Expence of foraebody elfe.
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