Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... 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 , I certainly ...
... 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 , I certainly ...
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... felt inclined to re- pair the damage done to my blooming cheeks , by trying the salubrious air at Mr , Thoroughgood's farm . Although I had so great an idea of my own importance , as to conceive that the honour I conferred by my ...
... felt inclined to re- pair the damage done to my blooming cheeks , by trying the salubrious air at Mr , Thoroughgood's farm . Although I had so great an idea of my own importance , as to conceive that the honour I conferred by my ...
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... felt very tremulous and strange , and had walked a full quarter of an hour be- fore I could dismiss the apprehension of sustaining a material injury by this un- seasonable exposure to the morning air : but my fears subsided as I ...
... felt very tremulous and strange , and had walked a full quarter of an hour be- fore I could dismiss the apprehension of sustaining a material injury by this un- seasonable exposure to the morning air : but my fears subsided as I ...
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... felt in such perfect charity with all mankind , that I verily believe , had Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the moment , I should have vouchsafed him a civil answer ! The tap at my chamber - door , repeated every morning , was ...
... felt in such perfect charity with all mankind , that I verily believe , had Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the moment , I should have vouchsafed him a civil answer ! The tap at my chamber - door , repeated every morning , was ...
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... felt uneasy and impatient , till I had per- formed my promise ; accordingly , the next day , I went home , and without con- sulting my mother , purchased a com- plete set , which arrived at the farm nearly as soon as I did ; and now my ...
... felt uneasy and impatient , till I had per- formed my promise ; accordingly , the next day , I went home , and without con- sulting my mother , purchased a com- plete set , which arrived at the farm nearly as soon as I did ; and now my ...
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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.