Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... able opportunities of providing for his family , determined him to an opposite line of conduct . Keeping one object constantly in view , he exerted all his energies to repair the injury his fortunes had sustained ; and he suffered few ...
... able opportunities of providing for his family , determined him to an opposite line of conduct . Keeping one object constantly in view , he exerted all his energies to repair the injury his fortunes had sustained ; and he suffered few ...
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... able to manage their servants and as- sistants , he constantly silenced them by this laconic question , " Why not ? " Richard was not well disposed to en- dure this kind of discipline , although , while under it , he was as unavoidably ...
... able to manage their servants and as- sistants , he constantly silenced them by this laconic question , " Why not ? " Richard was not well disposed to en- dure this kind of discipline , although , while under it , he was as unavoidably ...
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... able to superintend her family affairs , as to maintain at least the ap- pearance of regularity and comfort in the house ; which was more than could be said of it afterwards , while under my management . My father , though so much ...
... able to superintend her family affairs , as to maintain at least the ap- pearance of regularity and comfort in the house ; which was more than could be said of it afterwards , while under my management . My father , though so much ...
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... able ; so that I seemed without the least shadow of excuse for my sullenness and reserve . My father was too much occu- pied in business to observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet , I think , had he paid but ...
... able ; so that I seemed without the least shadow of excuse for my sullenness and reserve . My father was too much occu- pied in business to observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet , I think , had he paid but ...
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... able and willing to afford me an asylum . There were , indeed , very few people whom I particularly liked ; therefore , by a natural inference , I concluded that very few par- ticularly liked me ; and it requires some- thing more than ...
... able and willing to afford me an asylum . There were , indeed , very few people whom I particularly liked ; therefore , by a natural inference , I concluded that very few par- ticularly liked me ; and it requires some- thing more than ...
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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.