Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... most poignant distress ; but yet struggling with an ardent desire for the attain- ment of his object : their mutual suffer- ings were aggravated by the dread of my father's resentment , who could never tamely endure to 10 RETROSPECTION .
... most poignant distress ; but yet struggling with an ardent desire for the attain- ment of his object : their mutual suffer- ings were aggravated by the dread of my father's resentment , who could never tamely endure to 10 RETROSPECTION .
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... desire , miss , " said she , as she still surveyed the broken pieces ; " indeed you cannot repair it , because it was my mother's : but it cannot be helped now , and fretting won't put it together again ; " and then her counte- nance ...
... desire , miss , " said she , as she still surveyed the broken pieces ; " indeed you cannot repair it , because it was my mother's : but it cannot be helped now , and fretting won't put it together again ; " and then her counte- nance ...
Page 102
... desire to quit this provokingly prudent family , and the dread of acquainting my father with my still unsettled feelings , when by the express desire of my mother I was summoned home . She had some weeks previously , while taking her ...
... desire to quit this provokingly prudent family , and the dread of acquainting my father with my still unsettled feelings , when by the express desire of my mother I was summoned home . She had some weeks previously , while taking her ...
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... desire , we were again left alone , and in detached sentences , and at tedious intervals , I was just able to col- lect , that Peter at one time , in the hope of winning my favour , considering my brother Richard as the principal ...
... desire , we were again left alone , and in detached sentences , and at tedious intervals , I was just able to col- lect , that Peter at one time , in the hope of winning my favour , considering my brother Richard as the principal ...
Page 140
... desire to grow in the knowledge and practice of Christ- ianity ; but this desire was yet languid — I knew little of the elevated motives of a genuine faith , and little of that deli- verance from the bondage of easily be- setting sins ...
... desire to grow in the knowledge and practice of Christ- ianity ; but this desire was yet languid — I knew little of the elevated motives of a genuine faith , and little of that deli- verance from the bondage of easily be- setting sins ...
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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.