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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1755. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VIII. Is a continuance of what the former but began;--whoever therefore is not f leased with the porch, had be/I not venture farther, left he should meet with something yet more disagreeable within. TH O' Clyamon never had an opportunity of making much acquaintance in this metropolis, and now arriv'd here at a season in which great part of the nobility and gentry retire to their country seats, yet was he soon known, and his conversation courted by those of the best. rank who still remained in town. There were no Operas, indeedy nOPlays, no Masquerades to entertain him but the gardens of Ranelagh, VauxHall, and Mary-le-Bon; or, to speak more properly, the gay company that frequent those places left him no want of any other amusement;--the love of. pleasure can never continue ungratified ina town like this, and it is not to be wonder'd at if it sometimes got the better of m of all Clyamon's discretion; nor, if surrounded with temptations, that he could not always keep himself from giving way to passions which in youth, and a sprightly disposition, are so natural that they scarce deserve the name of faults. It is not my business to detain the reader's attention with an account of his gallantries with the fair sex, if any of the particulars had come to my knowledge, which I freely confess they did not,--I shall only fay that he had no amour which could call his honour in question, bring him into quarrels, or be productive of any other unhappy consequences. The only mistake in conduct he had any great reason to repent of, he was led into more by the prevalence of example than his own inclination;--he had never-been in the least tainted with that epidemic vice, the love of gaming; and rather wonder'd at the pleasure he saw it gave others than defir'd to ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235634779
- ISBN 13 9781235634772
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages54
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