Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... the joy produced by my recovery . It was while the marks of this recent indisposition were still visible on my wan features , that , during one of our morning 1 rides , we alighted at a small farm - 20 RETROSPECTION . CHAPTER II. ...
... the joy produced by my recovery . It was while the marks of this recent indisposition were still visible on my wan features , that , during one of our morning 1 rides , we alighted at a small farm - 20 RETROSPECTION . CHAPTER II. ...
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... morning I am not competent to affirm ; because the family dispersed about their respectivé avocations long before I made my appearance : but there was always found a little table , neatly set out , ready for my breakfast - the only ...
... morning I am not competent to affirm ; because the family dispersed about their respectivé avocations long before I made my appearance : but there was always found a little table , neatly set out , ready for my breakfast - the only ...
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... morning , ma'am ? " said little Fanny , who stood by . " Thank you , my dear , do , " said I— for I could not decently say " No. " . And so , the next morning , came a gen- tle tap at my chamber - door , with " It's six o'clock , ma'am ...
... morning , ma'am ? " said little Fanny , who stood by . " Thank you , my dear , do , " said I— for I could not decently say " No. " . And so , the next morning , came a gen- tle tap at my chamber - door , with " It's six o'clock , ma'am ...
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... morning , and , before I quitted the breakfast table , such a felicitous sensation diffused itself over me , and I felt in such perfect charity with all mankind , that I verily believe , had Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the ...
... morning , and , before I quitted the breakfast table , such a felicitous sensation diffused itself over me , and I felt in such perfect charity with all mankind , that I verily believe , had Peter Patterson himself accosted me at the ...
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... morning dew , which soon va- nishes away . ' But no more distracting or dissipating scenes were to annoy my mo- ther : -May I indulge the hope , that the important truths she then heard through this humble channel met , on her part ...
... morning dew , which soon va- nishes away . ' But no more distracting or dissipating scenes were to annoy my mo- ther : -May I indulge the hope , that the important truths she then heard through this humble channel met , on her part ...
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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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