Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 55
... direct way , what was but too evident - that the present reformation in domestic af- fairs had not taken place before it was wanted . But what produced the most irritating sensations in my bosom , was her arranging every thing anew that ...
... direct way , what was but too evident - that the present reformation in domestic af- fairs had not taken place before it was wanted . But what produced the most irritating sensations in my bosom , was her arranging every thing anew that ...
Page 63
... direct my course . I had reached the end of the street before I began to reflect on my situation ; I then made a full stop . And while I pause here in my narrative , I will just take occasion to remark , that it is a serious thing for ...
... direct my course . I had reached the end of the street before I began to reflect on my situation ; I then made a full stop . And while I pause here in my narrative , I will just take occasion to remark , that it is a serious thing for ...
Page 74
... direct application to my father ! He received the proposal with manifest surprise , and some symptoms of hesitation : nor did he decide so promptly as his extraordinary insight into remote consequences usually enabled him to do : but he ...
... direct application to my father ! He received the proposal with manifest surprise , and some symptoms of hesitation : nor did he decide so promptly as his extraordinary insight into remote consequences usually enabled him to do : but he ...
Page 76
... and thereby to maintain an influence over him , too power- ful to be destroyed by her arts ; but she was too much the mistress of herself to expose her chagrin and disappointment to observation , by direct 76 RETROSPECTION .
... and thereby to maintain an influence over him , too power- ful to be destroyed by her arts ; but she was too much the mistress of herself to expose her chagrin and disappointment to observation , by direct 76 RETROSPECTION .
Page 77
... direct hostility : - she therefore received William Thoroughgood with an appearance of cordiality ; but I was not without occasional misgivings and apprehensions of some mischievous inter- ference on her part , from my former ex ...
... direct hostility : - she therefore received William Thoroughgood with an appearance of cordiality ; but I was not without occasional misgivings and apprehensions of some mischievous inter- ference on her part , from my former ex ...
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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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