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  • Could be convinced of it, that he had nctcd u isely;

    The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1812

  • His lordship in his hast} - parting from liis wife, had not forgotten her dependent: but he w isely judged it, at that nwinent, impossible to attempt any tiling for her advantage which would npt prove diametrically of an opposite tendency, as that ali - ment which is nourishment to the stomach in its healthy state, becomes, when it is diseased, its active poison.

    The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1812

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