Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 20
... appearing exhausted by incessant fatigue and anxiety , seemed to experience a temporary revival from the joy produced by my recovery . It was while the marks of this recent indisposition were still visible on my wan features , that ...
... appearing exhausted by incessant fatigue and anxiety , seemed to experience a temporary revival from the joy produced by my recovery . It was while the marks of this recent indisposition were still visible on my wan features , that ...
Σελίδα 21
... appeared so amiable and prepossessing , that we occasionally re- peated our visit . Mrs. Thoroughgood , observing my sickly appearance , kindly invited me to spend a few days at the farm for the benefit of the air ; if , as she added ...
... appeared so amiable and prepossessing , that we occasionally re- peated our visit . Mrs. Thoroughgood , observing my sickly appearance , kindly invited me to spend a few days at the farm for the benefit of the air ; if , as she added ...
Σελίδα 23
... appeared in the room , and , without any ceremony , seated themselves in my pre- sence ! Such a thing I had never wit- nessed in my life . Then Mr. Thorough- good read a chapter in the Bible , and prayed without a book ! I was certain ...
... appeared in the room , and , without any ceremony , seated themselves in my pre- sence ! Such a thing I had never wit- nessed in my life . Then Mr. Thorough- good read a chapter in the Bible , and prayed without a book ! I was certain ...
Σελίδα 24
... appearance : but there was always found a little table , neatly set out , ready for my breakfast - the only instance in which it could be discerned that I occasioned any unusual trouble . " You are very early risers , Mr. Tho- roughgood ...
... appearance : but there was always found a little table , neatly set out , ready for my breakfast - the only instance in which it could be discerned that I occasioned any unusual trouble . " You are very early risers , Mr. Tho- roughgood ...
Σελίδα 27
... I had the mortification to per- ceive that things went on just the same as before . The woman appeared to me to be quite incapable of receiving new ideas . One c 2 RETROSPECTION . 27 others might be mitigated by it; but I ...
... I had the mortification to per- ceive that things went on just the same as before . The woman appeared to me to be quite incapable of receiving new ideas . One c 2 RETROSPECTION . 27 others might be mitigated by it; but I ...
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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.