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" ... instructors of these times: should they hear, that law was branded as a vain and even unjust attempt to bring individual actions under the restrictions of general rule; that chastity was defined to mean only individuality of affection ; that religion... "
A Tale of the Times - Page 181
by Jane West - 1799
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A tale of the times, by the author of A gossip's story

Jane West - 1803 - 1136 pages
...attempt to bring individual actions under the reftrictions of general rule ; that chaftity was defined to mean only individuality of affection ; that religion...arms of France, but to thofe principles which, by diffolving domeftic confidence and undermining private worth, paved the way for univerfal confufion....
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Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Claudia L. Johnson - 1988 - 212 pages
...individuality of affection; that religion was degraded into a sentimental effusion; and that these doctrines do not proceed from the pen of avowed profligates, but from persons apparently actuated by the desire of improving the happiness of the world: should, I say, generations...
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