Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

• Date de parution : 30/08/2010
• Editeur : Ebookslib
• EAN : 9781412184205
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• Support : Livre numérique

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I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my con sidering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scan dalous stages of my life, out of which I emerg'd, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health,... Voir plus

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my con sidering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scan dalous stages of my life, out of which I emerg'd, 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 tost 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