Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... endeavour to retrace all my wanderings . Ah ! its soft beams still gild the safe and straight road which lay before me ! Now I see it distinctly ; and I can perceive , too , the crooked paths and labyrinths into which I deviated . There ...
... endeavour to retrace all my wanderings . Ah ! its soft beams still gild the safe and straight road which lay before me ! Now I see it distinctly ; and I can perceive , too , the crooked paths and labyrinths into which I deviated . There ...
Page 31
... endeavour to repair it . " " That I do not 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 ...
... endeavour to repair it . " " That I do not 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 ...
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... endeavours , and what apparently insur- mountable difficulties may be overcome by those who have energy of character enough to grapple with them . Not at all discouraged by untoward circumstances , the Thoroughgoods only redoubled their ...
... endeavours , and what apparently insur- mountable difficulties may be overcome by those who have energy of character enough to grapple with them . Not at all discouraged by untoward circumstances , the Thoroughgoods only redoubled their ...
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... world . I inflicted the keenest anguish on myself by endeavouring to recal to my mind even the most trifling irregularities of temper from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating 44 RETROSPECTION .
... world . I inflicted the keenest anguish on myself by endeavouring to recal to my mind even the most trifling irregularities of temper from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating 44 RETROSPECTION .
Page 84
... . One day I accidentally dropt a copy of verses out of my work - bag ; Peter at- tempted to snatch them up , declaring he would read them ; - I was endeavouring to rescue the paper from his grasp , when William 84 RETROSPECTION .
... . One day I accidentally dropt a copy of verses out of my work - bag ; Peter at- tempted to snatch them up , declaring he would read them ; - I was endeavouring to rescue the paper from his grasp , when William 84 RETROSPECTION .
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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.