Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 8
... Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all his mother's engaging qualities . The tur- bulence of the boy was so blended with genuine good - nature and the kindest af- fections of the heart , that they more fre ...
... Richard was two years older than myself ; and he inherited all his mother's engaging qualities . The tur- bulence of the boy was so blended with genuine good - nature and the kindest af- fections of the heart , that they more fre ...
Σελίδα 9
... Richard was not well disposed to en- dure this kind of discipline , although , while under it , he was as unavoidably passive as the rest of the machinery of which he formed a part ; but he panted for B 5 RETROSPECTION . 9 trayed no ...
... Richard was not well disposed to en- dure this kind of discipline , although , while under it , he was as unavoidably passive as the rest of the machinery of which he formed a part ; but he panted for B 5 RETROSPECTION . 9 trayed no ...
Σελίδα 15
... what older than my brother Richard : his connexions were respectable , and his ex- pectations promising : nor was he in- sensible to these accidental advantages . Empty , pert , vain , and conceited , to RETROSPECTION . 15.
... what older than my brother Richard : his connexions were respectable , and his ex- pectations promising : nor was he in- sensible to these accidental advantages . Empty , pert , vain , and conceited , to RETROSPECTION . 15.
Σελίδα 51
... Richard all this time ? We could not tell : we had received but one letter from him since his arrival in India , and by this time we might have been repeatedly cheered by news from a far country ; especially as we had not been remiss on ...
... Richard all this time ? We could not tell : we had received but one letter from him since his arrival in India , and by this time we might have been repeatedly cheered by news from a far country ; especially as we had not been remiss on ...
Σελίδα 104
... Richard as the principal obstacle to his design on my fortune , had inter- cepted ( with the exception of the two first ) all the letters between him and his family ; together with all my father's numerous inquiries concerning him ...
... Richard as the principal obstacle to his design on my fortune , had inter- cepted ( with the exception of the two first ) all the letters between him and his family ; together with all my father's numerous inquiries concerning him ...
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 192 - he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a. city," the rigid discipline and government, to which Mr.