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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We should find her, if any sensible defect appeared in the mind, more careful in rectifying it, than plaistering up the irreparable decays of the person; nay, I am even apt to fancy, that ladies would find more real pleasure in this utensil in private, than in any other bauble imported from Chin...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The first person who came up in order to view her intellectual face was a commoner's wife, who, as I afterwards found, being bred during her virginity in a pawn-broker's shop, now attempted to make up the defects of breeding and sentiment by the magnificence of her dress, and the expensiveness o...
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
