Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... remained undiscovered by its present possessors . 66 My stars ! " exclaimed she , " what , in the name of wonder , is here ? Such a sight of papers , all sealed up so curi- ous ! Why , did you put these here , Jem ? " " Not I , " said ...
... remained undiscovered by its present possessors . 66 My stars ! " exclaimed she , " what , in the name of wonder , is here ? Such a sight of papers , all sealed up so curi- ous ! Why , did you put these here , Jem ? " " Not I , " said ...
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... remained proof against every unpropitious circumstance : but , not sufficiently sensible of the full im- port of the fifth commandment , if not essentially deficient in natural affection , I certainly did not give my parents the honour ...
... remained proof against every unpropitious circumstance : but , not sufficiently sensible of the full im- port of the fifth commandment , if not essentially deficient in natural affection , I certainly did not give my parents the honour ...
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... remained . A favourable juncture this to invoke the Muses , and they graciously hailed my recovery , and renewed their smiles ; and now , influenced by the rural scenery , I no longer felt disposed to bur- lesque my friends , but ...
... remained . A favourable juncture this to invoke the Muses , and they graciously hailed my recovery , and renewed their smiles ; and now , influenced by the rural scenery , I no longer felt disposed to bur- lesque my friends , but ...
Page 57
... remained cool and persevering , in- flicting upon me , under covert of kind- ness , every species of insult that her in- genuity could devise . What rendered my mortification the more intolerable , was my having to endure many of these ...
... remained cool and persevering , in- flicting upon me , under covert of kind- ness , every species of insult that her in- genuity could devise . What rendered my mortification the more intolerable , was my having to endure many of these ...
Page 142
... remained.- " Dear girl , " said he , " you have had your sorrows , I am sure . Old Father Time , merciless as he is , has all this ! " and then his lips - never done quivered - - and I burst into a convulsive fit of weeping . 142 ...
... remained.- " Dear girl , " said he , " you have had your sorrows , I am sure . Old Father Time , merciless as he is , has all this ! " and then his lips - never done quivered - - and I burst into a convulsive fit of weeping . 142 ...
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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.