Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 138
... neighbours , ( as good as neighbours usually are , ) availed me no- thing- and all this while the servants were as merry and happy as they could be , below stairs . It is true , I had no longer any tall chimneys to annoy me ; but then ...
... neighbours , ( as good as neighbours usually are , ) availed me no- thing- and all this while the servants were as merry and happy as they could be , below stairs . It is true , I had no longer any tall chimneys to annoy me ; but then ...
Page 145
... neighbours poured in , and gave my brother a hearty welcome ; while the village rang with the news from one end to the other . Invitations ensued in quick succession , and many weeks were spent in festivities at home and abroad , till ...
... neighbours poured in , and gave my brother a hearty welcome ; while the village rang with the news from one end to the other . Invitations ensued in quick succession , and many weeks were spent in festivities at home and abroad , till ...
Page 154
... dealt about among friends and neighbours . - to In this mood - but to avoid an alterca- tion with my brother , on a subject on which I knew we must be ever at va- riance , I suffered him to see me set out 154 RETROSPECTION .
... dealt about among friends and neighbours . - to In this mood - but to avoid an alterca- tion with my brother , on a subject on which I knew we must be ever at va- riance , I suffered him to see me set out 154 RETROSPECTION .
Page 156
... Scripture as you please ; but the question still re- mains - how can professors of religion consistently indulge in superfluities , while so many of their poor neighbours lite- rally want necessaries 156 RETROSPECTION .
... Scripture as you please ; but the question still re- mains - how can professors of religion consistently indulge in superfluities , while so many of their poor neighbours lite- rally want necessaries 156 RETROSPECTION .
Page 157
A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). so many of their poor neighbours lite- rally want necessaries ? You are not unacquainted , for instance , with the dis- tressed circumstances of John Simms- you probably know that he has been lately ...
A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). so many of their poor neighbours lite- rally want necessaries ? You are not unacquainted , for instance , with the dis- tressed circumstances of John Simms- you probably know that he has been lately ...
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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.