Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... observed as a general holiday throughout the family . No such things happened . : On the contrary , when , with a conse- quential air , I addressed my kind hostess by saying , " Now , I beg , Mrs. Thorough- good , that you will make no ...
... observed as a general holiday throughout the family . No such things happened . : On the contrary , when , with a conse- quential air , I addressed my kind hostess by saying , " Now , I beg , Mrs. Thorough- good , that you will make no ...
Page 32
... imagined they would be the very things to astonish and delight her ; this idea , however , arose from another of my mistakes : br the Thoroughgoods had no taste for gaudy show . Of this , my observation might have already 32 RETROSPECTION .
... imagined they would be the very things to astonish and delight her ; this idea , however , arose from another of my mistakes : br the Thoroughgoods had no taste for gaudy show . Of this , my observation might have already 32 RETROSPECTION .
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... observation might have already convinced me , and I ought not to have been surprised , that my ill - chosen present could not compensate for a valuable relic . The china , however , was placed in the grand deposit ; but I suf fered an ...
... observation might have already convinced me , and I ought not to have been surprised , that my ill - chosen present could not compensate for a valuable relic . The china , however , was placed in the grand deposit ; but I suf fered an ...
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... I did , however , venture to notice , in a cursory way , what I had observed at the farm respecting the general influence of reli- gion on the family , and on the particular individuals RETROSPECTION . 41 CHAPTER III. ...
... I did , however , venture to notice , in a cursory way , what I had observed at the farm respecting the general influence of reli- gion on the family , and on the particular individuals RETROSPECTION . 41 CHAPTER III. ...
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... observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet , I think , had he paid but common attention to what was passing in his family , he must soon have discovered that his new wife was a designing woman ; and that ...
... observe these things , or , if he did , to care about them ; yet , I think , had he paid but common attention to what was passing in his family , he must soon have discovered that his new wife was a designing woman ; and that ...
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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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