The Connoisseur 15 (1754) [ Practices ]
… for a lawyer, or to the Roll's Coffee-house for a man-midwife. The gentlemen who now frequent this place profess a kind of universal Scepticism; and as they look upon every thing as dubious, put the issue upon a wager. There is nothing … of a child has brought great advantages to perfons not in the least related to the family it was born in; and the breaking off a match has affected many in their fortunes, besides the parties immediately concerned. But the most …
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