Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 11
... better , as it made no material difference to him , he should not be at the trouble of op- posing it ; and he wished him to con- sider himself perfectly at liberty to follow his own inclinations . Notwithstanding my mother's dread of a ...
... better , as it made no material difference to him , he should not be at the trouble of op- posing it ; and he wished him to con- sider himself perfectly at liberty to follow his own inclinations . Notwithstanding my mother's dread of a ...
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... better appetite for these homely repasts , than I had usually experienced for the more costly viands of my father's table . For one novel custom , however , I was completely unprepared - before we be- gan supper , on the farmer's ...
... better appetite for these homely repasts , than I had usually experienced for the more costly viands of my father's table . For one novel custom , however , I was completely unprepared - before we be- gan supper , on the farmer's ...
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... " added his wife , " that if Miss Burrows would take a turn in the fields before her's , she would soon get a better appetite , for she eats nothing -just nothing at all . ” 66 Shall I call you to - morrow morning , 24 RETROSPECTION .
... " added his wife , " that if Miss Burrows would take a turn in the fields before her's , she would soon get a better appetite , for she eats nothing -just nothing at all . ” 66 Shall I call you to - morrow morning , 24 RETROSPECTION .
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... better hat - she calmly replied , " But we cannot afford it . " " O yes , you can , " said I. " We are the best judges of that , I think , " said the father , in rather a surly tone . Indeed , I began to suspect that I was no favourite ...
... better hat - she calmly replied , " But we cannot afford it . " " O yes , you can , " said I. " We are the best judges of that , I think , " said the father , in rather a surly tone . Indeed , I began to suspect that I was no favourite ...
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... better prepared to receive a favour- able impression , both by my former visit , and by my present humiliating circum- . stances . But whatever impressions I re- ceived , they were transient , and subject to interruptions , from the ...
... better prepared to receive a favour- able impression , both by my former visit , and by my present humiliating circum- . stances . But whatever impressions I re- ceived , they were transient , and subject to interruptions , from the ...
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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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