Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... mind not en- tirely at ease , there was nothing in her conduct , as a wife , from which such a circumstance could have been inferred ; but the degree in which she was impeded by sickness , in the discharge of those domestic duties for ...
... mind not en- tirely at ease , there was nothing in her conduct , as a wife , from which such a circumstance could have been inferred ; but the degree in which she was impeded by sickness , in the discharge of those domestic duties for ...
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... mind , I was seized with a dangerous illness , and for many weeks my life hung in suspense . My mother , regardless of her own infirmities , watched over my bed with unremitting tenderness and solici- tude ; -no peevish or impatient ...
... mind , I was seized with a dangerous illness , and for many weeks my life hung in suspense . My mother , regardless of her own infirmities , watched over my bed with unremitting tenderness and solici- tude ; -no peevish or impatient ...
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... mind , that during my visit the whole household would be decked in their holiday clothes , that the children would occasionally be admitted into my presence , and stand in a row with their hands before them , to see and to be seen in ...
... mind , that during my visit the whole household would be decked in their holiday clothes , that the children would occasionally be admitted into my presence , and stand in a row with their hands before them , to see and to be seen in ...
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... not await me in this 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 .
... not await me in this 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 .
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... to find time at my father's house : -but what wonders may be effected when people have a favourite object in view , and devote to it the whole energy of their D minds ! they will seize their opportunities , and be RETROSPECTION . 49.
... to find time at my father's house : -but what wonders may be effected when people have a favourite object in view , and devote to it the whole energy of their D minds ! they will seize their opportunities , and be RETROSPECTION . 49.
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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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