Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... accosted her in the most soothing strains , expres- sive of the tenderest affection and most poignant distress ; but yet struggling with an ardent desire for the attain- ment of his object : their mutual suffer- ings were aggravated by ...
... accosted her in the most soothing strains , expres- sive of the tenderest affection and most poignant distress ; but yet struggling with an ardent desire for the attain- ment of his object : their mutual suffer- ings were aggravated by ...
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... 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 permanence of these tranquil ...
... 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 permanence of these tranquil ...
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... accosted me , his countenance , which was remarkably open and good - natured , invariably underwent a change not at all flattering to my va- nity ; especially as I had no reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or ...
... accosted me , his countenance , which was remarkably open and good - natured , invariably underwent a change not at all flattering to my va- nity ; especially as I had no reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or ...
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... accosted her as his mother . Having had previously but a slight knowledge of the family , I had not heard of an elder son ; I found that he was the son of Mr. Thoroughgood by a former wife : he had lost his mother during his infancy ...
... accosted her as his mother . Having had previously but a slight knowledge of the family , I had not heard of an elder son ; I found that he was the son of Mr. Thoroughgood by a former wife : he had lost his mother during his infancy ...
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... accost her in the language of the Gospel seemed to me like speaking in an unknown tongue , or like the blind at- tempting to lead the blind . Deeply did I feel my own inability for such a serious task , having not yet learned the first ...
... accost her in the language of the Gospel seemed to me like speaking in an unknown tongue , or like the blind at- tempting to lead the blind . Deeply did I feel my own inability for such a serious task , having not yet learned the first ...
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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.