 ... offspring of my lowly paternal hearth, and my mother's enlightened piety was deeply implanted in my mind, that all had as good a right to the comforts of life as myself, or even as my husband. My charities, they were called— they seemed to me the...  The Honey-moon - Σελίδα 92των Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1837Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1837 - 432 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I dislike the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
 | 1837 - 428 σελίδες
...charities, they were called— they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1837 - 410 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
 | Emily Percival - 1849 - 314 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
 | Emily Percival - 1849 - 320 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — :they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...charity impelled me, but that I could not acquire a 23* taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my... | |
 | G. S. Munroe - 1850 - 316 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...charity impelled me, but that I could not acquire a 23* taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my... | |
 | 1854 - 268 σελίδες
...charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of rny debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1891 - 414 σελίδες
...checked them ; but as I had a large allowance for my own expenses, I denied myself a thousand luxuries, for the sake of feeding the hungry. Nor was it only...I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I disliked the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely,... | |
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