Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... effects on my temper . My poor mother frequently had her full share of my ill - humour , though it was especially at this period that she needed a friend and a comforter . I am now convinced , that she longed to find that friend in me ...
... effects on my temper . My poor mother frequently had her full share of my ill - humour , though it was especially at this period that she needed a friend and a comforter . I am now convinced , that she longed to find that friend in me ...
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... effect of every such tap on the shoulder , was to make me stoop the more ; so that I was in imminent danger of actually acquiring the habit which hitherto had no exist , * ence . My real faults ( which were not 56 RETROSPECTION .
... effect of every such tap on the shoulder , was to make me stoop the more ; so that I was in imminent danger of actually acquiring the habit which hitherto had no exist , * ence . My real faults ( which were not 56 RETROSPECTION .
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... farm ; but the few seeds then scattered , not " falling on good ground , " produced no fruit ; and now I was left to all the baneful effects of an ungoverned spirit . . CHAPTER IV . ONE day my father had requested 60 RETROSPECTION .
... farm ; but the few seeds then scattered , not " falling on good ground , " produced no fruit ; and now I was left to all the baneful effects of an ungoverned spirit . . CHAPTER IV . ONE day my father had requested 60 RETROSPECTION .
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... effect on my nerves ) , requested me to be so good as to fetch down her hat and cloak . I immediately withdrew , and sat myself down quietly at the window of my own apartment ; from whence , in about an hour , I saw her walking ...
... effect on my nerves ) , requested me to be so good as to fetch down her hat and cloak . I immediately withdrew , and sat myself down quietly at the window of my own apartment ; from whence , in about an hour , I saw her walking ...
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... effect I had imagined on Mr. and Mrs. Thorough- good ; so that it evidently was to me more than to my circumstances , that they principally objected . This was a humbling consideration , and I took leave of the hitherto friendly asylum ...
... effect I had imagined on Mr. and Mrs. Thorough- good ; so that it evidently was to me more than to my circumstances , that they principally objected . This was a humbling consideration , and I took leave of the hitherto friendly asylum ...
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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.