Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... on an individual , I am happily exempted from either extreme ; having been born in that intermediate class of society generally esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . RETROSPECTION . 5 CHAPTER I. ...
... on an individual , I am happily exempted from either extreme ; having been born in that intermediate class of society generally esteemed the most favourable to virtue and to happiness . RETROSPECTION . 5 CHAPTER I. ...
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... society of my dear brother , as a protection from the impertinences of my daily tormentor ; and the contrast which I continually made in imagina- tion between the two characters , aggra- vated my regret ; but I sullenly brooded over ...
... society of my dear brother , as a protection from the impertinences of my daily tormentor ; and the contrast which I continually made in imagina- tion between the two characters , aggra- vated my regret ; but I sullenly brooded over ...
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... society of my step - mother and Peter Patterson might be even more tolerable , than trying an experiment for which I knew myself to be so ill prepared . But I had reason to believe that my father's doors were bolted and barred against ...
... society of my step - mother and Peter Patterson might be even more tolerable , than trying an experiment for which I knew myself to be so ill prepared . But I had reason to believe that my father's doors were bolted and barred against ...
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... society I might have been introduced . - I was in a state of distressing anxiety between a vehement desire to quit this provokingly prudent family , and the dread of acquainting my father with my still unsettled feelings , when by the ...
... society I might have been introduced . - I was in a state of distressing anxiety between a vehement desire to quit this provokingly prudent family , and the dread of acquainting my father with my still unsettled feelings , when by the ...
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... society ; but my mind was never tranquil enough for me to have acquired the habit of wise observation : and many who have been confined all their days to a far narrower sphere , may have exceeded me in sound practical knowledge of human ...
... society ; but my mind was never tranquil enough for me to have acquired the habit of wise observation : and many who have been confined all their days to a far narrower sphere , may have exceeded me in sound practical knowledge of human ...
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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.