Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... mother , during this early period of my life , my recollections are of a more endearing description . Her na- tural temper , frank , ardent , and affec- tionate , had been chastened by protracted : bodily afflictions . I had heard it ...
... mother , during this early period of my life , my recollections are of a more endearing description . Her na- tural temper , frank , ardent , and affec- tionate , had been chastened by protracted : bodily afflictions . I had heard it ...
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... mother's solicitude . Her anxious wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her disorder . Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all ...
... mother's solicitude . Her anxious wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her disorder . Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all ...
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... mother was inconsolable when he first announced his determination to quit the paternal roof , knowing that when no longer under her watchful eye , he would be exposed to a thousand temptations . For some time , his filial affection and ...
... mother was inconsolable when he first announced his determination to quit the paternal roof , knowing that when no longer under her watchful eye , he would be exposed to a thousand temptations . For some time , his filial affection and ...
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... mother's dread of a disagreement between the father and the son , she could not now help re- gretting the removal of one obstacle to this fatal step , by her husband's ready acquiescence . No other impediment oc- curring , measures were ...
... mother's dread of a disagreement between the father and the son , she could not now help re- gretting the removal of one obstacle to this fatal step , by her husband's ready acquiescence . No other impediment oc- curring , measures were ...
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... mother's impaired constitution now received a shock , which left little hope of her long surviving : but my father evi- dently thought it quite unnecessary to die because a son was gone abroad , nor did he appear apprehensive of such a ...
... mother's impaired constitution now received a shock , which left little hope of her long surviving : but my father evi- dently thought it quite unnecessary to die because a son was gone abroad , nor did he appear apprehensive of such 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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