Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... ma'am , I'll show you such a pretty green lane ! This is our way to school - there - that is the school with the white paling , and there is our house just over yonder gate ; don't you see the chimney RETROSPECTION . 25.
... ma'am , I'll show you such a pretty green lane ! This is our way to school - there - that is the school with the white paling , and there is our house just over yonder gate ; don't you see the chimney RETROSPECTION . 25.
Page 26
... chimney and the poplars ? They're in our garden ! That is our house ; now we'll go another way across the fields , and we shall be home presently . " I was tired when we got home , and began to fear I should sustain as much injury from ...
... chimney and the poplars ? They're in our garden ! That is our house ; now we'll go another way across the fields , and we shall be home presently . " I was tired when we got home , and began to fear I should sustain as much injury from ...
Page 121
... chimneys , which , had it been disturbed by a westerly wind , must in- evitably have buried my bed under its ruins ! Now this was an objection which I could not very properly name , as ( if it was valid ) it could be obviated only by ...
... chimneys , which , had it been disturbed by a westerly wind , must in- evitably have buried my bed under its ruins ! Now this was an objection which I could not very properly name , as ( if it was valid ) it could be obviated only by ...
Page 123
... chimneys as yet continued to defy their fury . Ah ! thought I , as I was shaken in my bed , and shrunk under the clothes to shield my head from the tumbling bricks , if the wind has this tremendous effect on the house , how can the chimneys ...
... chimneys as yet continued to defy their fury . Ah ! thought I , as I was shaken in my bed , and shrunk under the clothes to shield my head from the tumbling bricks , if the wind has this tremendous effect on the house , how can the chimneys ...
Page 125
... chimneys down , " said I to Martha , as she was attending me to bed . " Blow the chimneys down , maʼam ! ” said she , " not it - they've stood it for many a long year . " " The older they are , " said I , “ the greater is the danger of ...
... chimneys down , " said I to Martha , as she was attending me to bed . " Blow the chimneys down , maʼam ! ” said she , " not it - they've stood it for many a long year . " " The older they are , " said I , “ the greater is the danger of ...
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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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