Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 23
... not repeated by rote , because , among other strange things which I had been unaccustomed to hear , he prayed for a blessing on my visit , and for my com- plete restoration to health . I began now to suspect RETROSPECTION . 23.
... not repeated by rote , because , among other strange things which I had been unaccustomed to hear , he prayed for a blessing on my visit , and for my com- plete restoration to health . I began now to suspect RETROSPECTION . 23.
Page 24
... began now to suspect what sort of people I was amongst ; however , having discerned no- thing yet that I could blame , I resolved , for the present , to suspend my opinion . Whether the same ceremony was repeated in the morning I am not ...
... began now to suspect what sort of people I was amongst ; however , having discerned no- thing yet that I could blame , I resolved , for the present , to suspend my opinion . Whether the same ceremony was repeated in the morning I am not ...
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... began to fear I should sustain as much injury from the heat , as I had appre- hended from the cold but I thought the bread unusually sweet that morning , and , before I quitted the breakfast table , such a felicitous sensation diffused ...
... began to fear I should sustain as much injury from the heat , as I had appre- hended from the cold but I thought the bread unusually sweet that morning , and , before I quitted the breakfast table , such a felicitous sensation diffused ...
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... began to suspect that I was no favourite with this good man , what- ever I might be with his wife : for I ob- served that whenever he accosted me , his countenance , which was remarkably open and good - natured , invariably underwent a ...
... began to suspect that I was no favourite with this good man , what- ever I might be with his wife : for I ob- served that whenever he accosted me , his countenance , which was remarkably open and good - natured , invariably underwent a ...
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... which they laboured . Mr. Thoroughgood began business with a very small capital ; he had a young family , and , besides , had lately been involved in an expensive lawsuit : it was this circum- stance which RETROSPECTION . 37.
... which they laboured . Mr. Thoroughgood began business with a very small capital ; he had a young family , and , besides , had lately been involved in an expensive lawsuit : it was this circum- stance which RETROSPECTION . 37.
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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.
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