Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... brother too , - yes , I had a brother ; and we together engrossed all our mother's solicitude . Her anxious wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her ...
... brother too , - yes , I had a brother ; and we together engrossed all our mother's solicitude . Her anxious wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her ...
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... at the time of my brother's departure for India : the world called me handsome , and I was disposed to believe it : but , if certain grave people should be more inquisitive respecting my mental qualities 12 RETROSPECTION .
... at the time of my brother's departure for India : the world called me handsome , and I was disposed to believe it : but , if certain grave people should be more inquisitive respecting my mental qualities 12 RETROSPECTION .
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... - 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 , and conceited , to RETROSPECTION . 15.
... - 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 , and conceited , to RETROSPECTION . 15.
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... brother , as a protection from the impertinences of my daily tormentor ; and the contrast which I continually made in imagina- tion between the two characters , aggra- vated my regret ; but I sullenly brooded over these disquietudes ...
... brother , as a protection from the impertinences of my daily tormentor ; and the contrast which I continually made in imagina- tion between the two characters , aggra- vated my regret ; but I sullenly brooded over these disquietudes ...
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... brother Richard all this time ? We could not tell : we had received but one letter from him since his arrival in India , and by this time we might have been repeatedly cheered by news from a far country ; especially as we had not been ...
... brother Richard all this time ? We could not tell : we had received but one letter from him since his arrival in India , and by this time we might have been repeatedly cheered by news from a far country ; especially as we had not been ...
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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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