Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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Page 29
... , and of which I could per- ceive she was a little vain : the first day of my becoming an inmate , I took down one of the china cups for my medicine ; when she came into the room she washed and carefully RETROSPECTION . 29.
... , and of which I could per- ceive she was a little vain : the first day of my becoming an inmate , I took down one of the china cups for my medicine ; when she came into the room she washed and carefully RETROSPECTION . 29.
Page 53
... took no circuitous course ; but came to the point at once . It was not in character for the lady to be quite so prompt in her deci- sion - she had many scruples - or would have had many , had her lover been dis- posed to listen to them ...
... took no circuitous course ; but came to the point at once . It was not in character for the lady to be quite so prompt in her deci- sion - she had many scruples - or would have had many , had her lover been dis- posed to listen to them ...
Page 57
... ( if any thing could do it ) to them both . Still my mother took care , that I should have nothing on which to found a plausible complaint ; and even if any such occasion had been given me D 5 RETROSPECTION . 57 * ...
... ( if any thing could do it ) to them both . Still my mother took care , that I should have nothing on which to found a plausible complaint ; and even if any such occasion had been given me D 5 RETROSPECTION . 57 * ...
Page 76
... took leave of the hitherto friendly asylum , and its worthy inhabitants , with apparent cool- ness and chagrin . It was but too evident , that this unex- pected revolution in my affairs did not entirely accord with my mother's feelings ...
... took leave of the hitherto friendly asylum , and its worthy inhabitants , with apparent cool- ness and chagrin . It was but too evident , that this unex- pected revolution in my affairs did not entirely accord with my mother's feelings ...
Page 78
... took in leaving my father's house , was an offence in the sight of heaven , and would ultimately bring down on my head its just re- ward , when to that very step I owed my present propitious circumstances ? No ; I should have said ...
... took in leaving my father's house , was an offence in the sight of heaven , and would ultimately bring down on my head its just re- ward , when to that very step I owed my present propitious circumstances ? No ; I should have said ...
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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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