Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... sentiment in a bosom like his , could deserve the name : but though he never advanced so far as to make an open declaration of love , the unequivocal symptoms of this sentiment increased my abhorrence , and had the most inju- rious ...
... sentiment in a bosom like his , could deserve the name : but though he never advanced so far as to make an open declaration of love , the unequivocal symptoms of this sentiment increased my abhorrence , and had the most inju- rious ...
Page 29
... sentiments with which I affected to regard them . These mistaken notions of inequality with which I entered the house , rendered me equally forgetful of my situation as a guest , and of the character of a gentle- woman , on which I ...
... sentiments with which I affected to regard them . These mistaken notions of inequality with which I entered the house , rendered me equally forgetful of my situation as a guest , and of the character of a gentle- woman , on which I ...
Page 79
... I had , like most other young ladies , a confidante , towards whom I should have deemed it a flagrant violation of the fine sentiments we mutually professed , to have indulged any reserve . Accord- ingly , my RETROSPECTION . 79.
... I had , like most other young ladies , a confidante , towards whom I should have deemed it a flagrant violation of the fine sentiments we mutually professed , to have indulged any reserve . Accord- ingly , my RETROSPECTION . 79.
Page 86
... sentiments ; nevertheless I deter- mined to maintain a dignified silence . My dignified silence continued unin- terrupted day after day , and week after week , but no William Thoroughgood was seen or heard of . And now , if Peter , from ...
... sentiments ; nevertheless I deter- mined to maintain a dignified silence . My dignified silence continued unin- terrupted day after day , and week after week , but no William Thoroughgood was seen or heard of . And now , if Peter , from ...
Page 158
... sentiments ; but to go no further back than the reign of Solomon - had the moderate use of what you call luxuries , been prohibited , do you think that the inspired writer would have been so very circumstantial in detailing the riches ...
... sentiments ; but to go no further back than the reign of Solomon - had the moderate use of what you call luxuries , been prohibited , do you think that the inspired writer would have been so very circumstantial in detailing the riches ...
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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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