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There's no way like it, replied I; and it is certainly in the Power of a sweet temper'd Woman to reclaim the worst of us; therefore be sure to secure that Point, whatever the rest may prove.

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There's no way like it, replied I; and it is certainly in the Power of a sweet temper'd Woman to reclaim the worst of us; therefore be sure to secure that Point, whatever the rest may prove.

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One keen with temper'd steel, one stiff with gold:

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Than glancing spear and temper'd sword, bright instruments of war;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Matter contain'd in another Ball, is exactly temper'd in its Quantities, and equal in its parts, so as there is no Predominancy, the Seed of the

Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

The temper'd metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Whereas if they would suffer them to come up by degrees, that their studies might be temper'd with grave lectures; their affections fashion'd by the dictates of wisdom; that they might work themselves into a mastery of words; and for a long time hear, what they're inclined to imitate, nothing that pleas'd children, wou'd be admir'd by them.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

His Wit was so temper'd, that no man had ever reason to wish it had been less: he prevented other mens severity upon it by his own: he never willingly recited any of his Writings.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

Enothea, in the middle of the altar, plac'd a turf-table, which she heapt with burning coals, and her old crack cup (for sacrifice) repair'd with temper'd pitch; when she had fixt it to the smoaking-wall from which she took it; putting on her habit, she plac'd

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

_Yorkshire Dip_ (the mixture of sweet and sour) might have remained a type of Life, temper'd in like manner: not by the wrath but by the

An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Nathaniel Bloomfield