Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... reason to suspect did not event- ually operate to my advantage : and cer- tainly by being so constantly employed by my friends , to celebrate the most trivial occurrences that befel them , I found business accumulate so rapidly on my ...
... reason to suspect did not event- ually operate to my advantage : and cer- tainly by being so constantly employed by my friends , to celebrate the most trivial occurrences that befel them , I found business accumulate so rapidly on my ...
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... is a malady which yields to few remedies , but those which are mixed in the bitter cup of affliction ; and some have only found a cure by wringing it out to the very dregs . I had reason to believe , that this dis- like RETROSPECTION . 17.
... is a malady which yields to few remedies , but those which are mixed in the bitter cup of affliction ; and some have only found a cure by wringing it out to the very dregs . I had reason to believe , that this dis- like RETROSPECTION . 17.
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A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). I had reason to believe , that this dis- like in the early stage of it , was not mutual ; but that Peter Patterson was so far captivated by my person , as to harbour a sort of attachment , if any ...
A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). I had reason to believe , that this dis- like in the early stage of it , was not mutual ; but that Peter Patterson was so far captivated by my person , as to harbour a sort of attachment , if any ...
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... reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or diffidence he might feel at the immeasurable distance which I conceived rank and acquirements had placed be- tween us . I would fain have persuaded myself that I was perfectly ...
... reason to impute it to any particular embarrass- ment or diffidence he might feel at the immeasurable distance which I conceived rank and acquirements had placed be- tween us . I would fain have persuaded myself that I was perfectly ...
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... reason to believe that he felt the loss of his wife in these respects in a degree which he had not anticipated ; for I must con- fess that my domestic management did me little credit . On one occasion he said , shaking his head , and ...
... reason to believe that he felt the loss of his wife in these respects in a degree which he had not anticipated ; for I must con- fess that my domestic management did me little credit . On one occasion he said , shaking his head , and ...
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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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