Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... head is so bad , whatever is the matter with me ! but you'll be sure to find it in some of them . " " I cannot find it any where , Jem , " said she , after a diligent search . " Not find it ! " exclaimed he , darting his head from the ...
... head is so bad , whatever is the matter with me ! but you'll be sure to find it in some of them . " " I cannot find it any where , Jem , " said she , after a diligent search . " Not find it ! " exclaimed he , darting his head from the ...
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... head , and looking very solemn , " O Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
... head , and looking very solemn , " O Lucy , Lucy , this will never do ! " Alas ! I little suspected the por- tentous meaning of that short sentence . In the mean time , Peter Patterson began gradually to RETROSPECTION . 47.
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... head to work a carpet ; she did not approve of the undertaking , and from what she knew of my disposition , as well as from the magnitude of the task , she augured that it would never be finished . " It will , mamma ! " said I , " and ...
... head to work a carpet ; she did not approve of the undertaking , and from what she knew of my disposition , as well as from the magnitude of the task , she augured that it would never be finished . " It will , mamma ! " said I , " and ...
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... having a roof over my head , to a degree which I never did before : yet I could not but contrast my own situation with that of the happy group around me . Neither anxiety nor self - reproach agitated their 66 RETROSPECTION .
... having a roof over my head , to a degree which I never did before : yet I could not but contrast my own situation with that of the happy group around me . Neither anxiety nor self - reproach agitated their 66 RETROSPECTION .
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... head its just re- ward , when to that very step I owed my present propitious circumstances ? No ; I should have said indignantly , " Let this happy result plead my cause ; Providence smiles on my conduct . ” Yet the light in which a ...
... head its just re- ward , when to that very step I owed my present propitious circumstances ? No ; I should have said indignantly , " Let this happy result plead my cause ; Providence smiles on my conduct . ” Yet the light in which a ...
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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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