Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... especially , I felt a tenderness which eventually remained proof against every unpropitious circumstance : but , not sufficiently sensible of the full im- port of the fifth commandment , if not essentially deficient in natural affection ...
... especially , I felt a tenderness which eventually remained proof against every unpropitious circumstance : but , not sufficiently sensible of the full im- port of the fifth commandment , if not essentially deficient in natural affection ...
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... 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 : it would have mitigated her sorrows , could she have conversed frequently and freely on that ...
... 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 : it would have mitigated her sorrows , could she have conversed frequently and freely on that ...
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... especially as I had no reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or diffidence he might feel at the immeasurable distance which I conceived rank and acquirements had placed be- tween us . I would fain have persuaded myself ...
... especially as I had no reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or diffidence he might feel at the immeasurable distance which I conceived rank and acquirements had placed be- tween us . I would fain have persuaded myself ...
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... especially prided myself ; and caused me to behave with little more regard to the feelings or in- clinations of my hosts , than I should have thought due to the master and mistress of a lodging - house . Mrs. Tho- roughgood had a neat ...
... especially prided myself ; and caused me to behave with little more regard to the feelings or in- clinations of my hosts , than I should have thought due to the master and mistress of a lodging - house . Mrs. Tho- roughgood had a neat ...
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... especially to ex- tricate themselves from unavoidable em- barrassments under which they laboured . Mr. Thoroughgood began business with a very small capital ; he had a young family , and , besides , had lately been involved in an ...
... especially to ex- tricate themselves from unavoidable em- barrassments under which they laboured . Mr. Thoroughgood began business with a very small capital ; he had a young family , and , besides , had lately been involved in an ...
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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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