Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 54
... continued to be unobjection- able ; so that I seemed without the least shadow of excuse for my sullenness and reserve . My father was too much occu- pied in business to observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet ...
... continued to be unobjection- able ; so that I seemed without the least shadow of excuse for my sullenness and reserve . My father was too much occu- pied in business to observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet ...
Page 79
... continued coolness of my lover's parents . I expressed my regret to him , that I should be the means of occasioning any disagreement in his family ; this , however , he assured me was not the case to the extent I might suppose ...
... continued coolness of my lover's parents . I expressed my regret to him , that I should be the means of occasioning any disagreement in his family ; this , however , he assured me was not the case to the extent I might suppose ...
Page 86
... continued unin- terrupted day after day , and week after week , but no William Thoroughgood was seen or heard of . And now , if Peter , from the recent encouragements I had given him , had suffered his early inten- tions to revive , my ...
... continued unin- terrupted day after day , and week after week , but no William Thoroughgood was seen or heard of . And now , if Peter , from the recent encouragements I had given him , had suffered his early inten- tions to revive , my ...
Page 103
... continued she , " I could say as much of him with respect to the letters ! " 66 Letters ! " exclaimed I , " what let- ters ? " Here another paroxysm , longer and more severe than the former one , kept me in a state of the most agonizing ...
... continued she , " I could say as much of him with respect to the letters ! " 66 Letters ! " exclaimed I , " what let- ters ? " Here another paroxysm , longer and more severe than the former one , kept me in a state of the most agonizing ...
Page 110
... continued obstinately tenacious of his own way , I found it impossible to reclaim him : but , as he did not presume to interfere with mine , things went on better than might once have been ex- pected . It was , indeed , high time that I ...
... continued obstinately tenacious of his own way , I found it impossible to reclaim him : but , as he did not presume to interfere with mine , things went on better than might once have been ex- pected . It was , indeed , high time that I ...
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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.