Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... 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 dis- tantly 6 RETROSPECTION .
... 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 dis- tantly 6 RETROSPECTION .
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... recollection , and I may number it among the bitterest of my life . My 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 ...
... recollection , and I may number it among the bitterest of my life . My 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 ...
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... me in this world . I inflicted the keenest anguish on myself by endeavouring to recal to my mind even the most trifling irregularities of temper from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating 44 RETROSPECTION .
... me in this world . I inflicted the keenest anguish on myself by endeavouring to recal to my mind even the most trifling irregularities of temper from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating 44 RETROSPECTION .
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A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating every instance of disobedience and inattention . How many of those painful remembrances might have been spared by habitual self- command ...
A Tale Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin). from my earliest recollection , and was ingenious in aggravating every instance of disobedience and inattention . How many of those painful remembrances might have been spared by habitual self- command ...
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... recollection of Mrs. Thoroughgood , and her peaceful and hospitable abode , darted into my mind . Thither , without further hesitation , I directed my steps ; nothing discouraged by the length of the walk , the lateness of the evening ...
... recollection of Mrs. Thoroughgood , and her peaceful and hospitable abode , darted into my mind . Thither , without further hesitation , I directed my steps ; nothing discouraged by the length of the walk , the lateness of the evening ...
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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.