Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her disorder . Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all his mother's engaging qualities ...
... wish to recover health , for our sakes , aggravated every pain , and rendered more formidable every unpropitious symptom of her disorder . Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all his mother's engaging qualities ...
Page 52
... wish I had not let that boy go to sea : " which was for him an unusual con- cession . This But these parental anxieties did not divert him from what appeared to have been his settled purpose . In conformity to the emphatic and memorable ...
... wish I had not let that boy go to sea : " which was for him an unusual con- cession . This But these parental anxieties did not divert him from what appeared to have been his settled purpose . In conformity to the emphatic and memorable ...
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... wish you would drop the subject . " " I cannot drop the subject , " said he , " for it is no trifle to me ; your ne- gligence has occasioned me the greatest inconvenience . I beg to know , what prevented you from being there in time ...
... wish you would drop the subject . " " I cannot drop the subject , " said he , " for it is no trifle to me ; your ne- gligence has occasioned me the greatest inconvenience . I beg to know , what prevented you from being there in time ...
Page 79
... wish ; but , I perceived he always endeavoured to evade the subject . Among the number of my female friends , I had , like most other young ladies , a confidante , towards whom I should have deemed it a flagrant violation of the fine ...
... wish ; but , I perceived he always endeavoured to evade the subject . Among the number of my female friends , I had , like most other young ladies , a confidante , towards whom I should have deemed it a flagrant violation of the fine ...
Page 103
... wish , " continued she , " I could say as much of him with respect to the letters ! " 66 Letters ! " exclaimed I , " what let- ters ? " Here another paroxysm , longer and more severe than the former one , kept me in a state of the most ...
... wish , " continued she , " I could say as much of him with respect to the letters ! " 66 Letters ! " exclaimed I , " what let- ters ? " Here another paroxysm , longer and more severe than the former one , kept me in a state of the most ...
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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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