Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... honour or the reverse on an individual , I am happily exempted from either extreme ; having been born in that intermediate class of society generally esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . RETROSPECTION . 5 CHAPTER I. ...
... honour or the reverse on an individual , I am happily exempted from either extreme ; having been born in that intermediate class of society generally esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . RETROSPECTION . 5 CHAPTER I. ...
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A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . My father was a solicitor in a populous town , and derived considerable emolument from his pro- fession . My acquaintance with him , during my ...
A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . My father was a solicitor in a populous town , and derived considerable emolument from his pro- fession . My acquaintance with him , during my ...
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... favourably on my health and spirits , that in a short time no vestiges of my former indisposi tion remained . A favourable juncture this to invoke the Muses , and they graciously hailed my recovery , and renewed their smiles ; and now ...
... favourably on my health and spirits , that in a short time no vestiges of my former indisposi tion remained . A favourable juncture this to invoke the Muses , and they graciously hailed my recovery , and renewed their smiles ; and now ...
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... favourable oc- casion for improving my own unsettled character ! but , while involuntarily pleased with the traits of amiableness which I daily witnessed in parents and children , I never thought of making a salutary application of the ...
... favourable oc- casion for improving my own unsettled character ! but , while involuntarily pleased with the traits of amiableness which I daily witnessed in parents and children , I never thought of making a salutary application of the ...
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... favourable opportunity for drawing forth his affectionate feelings to- wards myself , and thus attempting to cherish that natural intimacy to which we had hitherto been strangers . He was very sorry for his loss : —and I was assured ...
... favourable opportunity for drawing forth his affectionate feelings to- wards myself , and thus attempting to cherish that natural intimacy to which we had hitherto been strangers . He was very sorry for his loss : —and I was assured ...
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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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