Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 σελίδες |
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... thing ? ” 66 They are honestly mine , be they what they may , " exclaimed the old man ; for my master bought those very drawers at Ashen Hall ; and when he went away , he said I might have them ; and no- thing's freer than a gift . ” Mr ...
... thing ? ” 66 They are honestly mine , be they what they may , " exclaimed the old man ; for my master bought those very drawers at Ashen Hall ; and when he went away , he said I might have them ; and no- thing's freer than a gift . ” Mr ...
Σελίδα 22
... things happened . : On the contrary , when , with a conse- quential air , I addressed my kind hostess by saying , " Now , I beg , Mrs. Thorough ... thing went on in its usual course , exhibiting the same air of comfort 22 RETROSPECTION .
... things happened . : On the contrary , when , with a conse- quential air , I addressed my kind hostess by saying , " Now , I beg , Mrs. Thorough ... thing went on in its usual course , exhibiting the same air of comfort 22 RETROSPECTION .
Σελίδα 23
... 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 it was not repeated by rote , because , among other strange things which I had been unaccustomed ...
... 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 it was not repeated by rote , because , among other strange things which I had been unaccustomed ...
Σελίδα 24
... thing yet that I could blame , I resolved , for the present , to suspend my opinion . Whether the same ceremony was repeated in the morning I am not competent to affirm ; because the family dispersed about their respectivé avocations ...
... thing yet that I could blame , I resolved , for the present , to suspend my opinion . Whether the same ceremony was repeated in the morning I am not competent to affirm ; because the family dispersed about their respectivé avocations ...
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.