Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... Peter Pat- terson , articled to my father , was some- what older than my brother Richard : his connexions were respectable , and his ex- pectations promising : nor was he in- sensible to these accidental advantages . Empty , pert , vain ...
... Peter Pat- terson , articled to my father , was some- what older than my brother Richard : his connexions were respectable , and his ex- pectations promising : nor was he in- sensible to these accidental advantages . Empty , pert , vain ...
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... Peter Patterson was so far captivated by my person , as to harbour a sort of attachment , if any sentiment in a bosom like his , could deserve the name : but though he never advanced so far as to make an open declaration of love , the ...
... Peter Patterson was so far captivated by my person , as to harbour a sort of attachment , if any sentiment in a bosom like his , could deserve the name : but though he never advanced so far as to make an open declaration of love , the ...
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... Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the moment , I should have vouchsafed him a civil answer ! The tap at my chamber - door , repeated every morning , was answered with in- creasing good humour ; not that I can boast of the ...
... Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the moment , I should have vouchsafed him a civil answer ! The tap at my chamber - door , repeated every morning , was answered with in- creasing good humour ; not that I can boast of the ...
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... Peter Patterson ; but whenever I returned to my mother after having encountered him , my voice and manner were evidently changed , and some fresh symptom of her declining strength was always required to restore me to that tenderness of ...
... Peter Patterson ; but whenever I returned to my mother after having encountered him , my voice and manner were evidently changed , and some fresh symptom of her declining strength was always required to restore me to that tenderness of ...
Page 47
... head , and looking very solemn , " O Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
... head , and looking very solemn , " O Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
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Page 136 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 192 - he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a. city," the rigid discipline and government, to which Mr.