- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Genteel
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
- Law
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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
- Living
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
- Country
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
- Mother
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
- Necessity
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
- First
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First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
- Life
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
- Lord
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For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
- Mother
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
- Bestow
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- Nov 07, 2020