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  • What art! what friendfhips! oh! what fame refign'd! —

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • Indulge the generous afFeftions of your heart; cherifti the filial and fraternal love with which it glows; cultivate the valuable friendfhips you have formed; and be affured that what conftitutesyourprefent, will heighten your future felicity.

    A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections 1781

  • You had then a profpedl; of friendfhips better fuited to your genius, and more likely to fix your difpo - fition.

    The genuine letters of Junius 1771

  • 'Tho' we have all heard hovr dangerous it is, to contract friendfhips with the felfifli, to commit our fecrets to thofe who cannot keep their own, to delay till to - morrow, what we may as eafily do to day, or to do by another what we can eafily do

    Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects: Relating to Human Life and Happiness 1770

  • I will add, that a conti - nuance t H) nuance of this connexion is frequently the foun - dation of fo much mutual kindnefs and attach - ment, that very few friendfhips are more cordial, or morefincere; that it leaves oftentimes nothing in fervitude, except the name; uof any distinc - tion, but what one party is as much pleafed with, and ibmetimes alfo, as proud of, as the other:

    Reasons for contentment; Paley, William, 1743-1805 1793

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