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The juvenile Lavater; (1812)

Brewer, George, b. 1766. [from old catalog] · London, A.K. Newman and co · leaf 163

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e,my dear children, are necessaryin the community, to preserve pro-perty, and to cause us to act withjustice to each other ; and when theirunpleasant office is performed withdecency and mildness, they do notdeserve disapprobation. It happen-ed, however, that the two officerswho were in the poor… … 127 fc See them busily employed., tak-ing an inventory of the little effectsof the poor widow, with an unfeel-ing composure, that disgraced eventheir profession. Here is the por-trait of one of them, full of officiousconsequence and contempt for po-verty. To the applications which aremade to him by…

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