Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... natural temper was most sweet , and soft , and engaging , and humble , and teach- able , when my will was not opposed , my opinions controverted , my convenience as- sailed , or my plans interrupted : but then I experienced an ...
... natural temper was most sweet , and soft , and engaging , and humble , and teach- able , when my will was not opposed , my opinions controverted , my convenience as- sailed , or my plans interrupted : but then I experienced an ...
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... natural affection , I certainly did not give my parents the honour due to them . My conscience frequently upbraided me with suffering this evil disposition to influence my be- haviour , though , after every aggression , I made secret ...
... natural affection , I certainly did not give my parents the honour due to them . My conscience frequently upbraided me with suffering this evil disposition to influence my be- haviour , though , after every aggression , I made secret ...
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... natural irritability of my temper , as well as to form some un- amiable habits , which , for a long time , seemed too inveterate to yield to the chastisements with which I was exer- cised . My dislike gradually degenerated into the most ...
... natural irritability of my temper , as well as to form some un- amiable habits , which , for a long time , seemed too inveterate to yield to the chastisements with which I was exer- cised . My dislike gradually degenerated into the most ...
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... naturally conceived , a suf- ficient hint for the future . Instead of this , however , a few days afterwards , on finding my usual cup omitted , I went again to the closet , and without scruple supplied its place from the set I had ...
... naturally conceived , a suf- ficient hint for the future . Instead of this , however , a few days afterwards , on finding my usual cup omitted , I went again to the closet , and without scruple supplied its place from the set I had ...
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... natural intimacy to which we had hitherto been strangers . He was very sorry for his loss : —and I was assured , from unquestionable au- thority , that when the coffin was lowered into the vault , his lip quivered , and he wiped a real ...
... natural intimacy to which we had hitherto been strangers . He was very sorry for his loss : —and I was assured , from unquestionable au- thority , that when the coffin was lowered into the vault , his lip quivered , and he wiped a real ...
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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.