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| | 1 | Author: | Cleland, John, 1709-1789. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoirs of Fanny Hill.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your
desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I
shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I
emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of
love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth,
and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and
affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable
one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been
toss'd in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners
of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who
looking on all thought or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at
as great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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