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" It is evident enough that my temper must have been very bad. It seems to me now that it was downright devilish, except for a placability which used to annoy me sadly. My temper might have been early made a thoroughly good one, by the slightest indulgence... "
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography - Page 19
by Harriet Martineau - 1877
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography ...

Harriet Martineau - Authors, English - 1877 - 652 pages
...now that it was downright devilish, except for a placability which used to AOED 5.] JEALOUS TEMPER. annoy me sadly. My temper might have been early made...father's partner, one day came into the yard, took Eachel up in his arms, gave her some grapes off the vine, and carried her home, across the street,...
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The Congregational Quarterly, Volume 19

Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1877 - 676 pages
...the slightest indulgence shown to my natural affections, and any rational dealing with my faults. ... I had no self-respect, and an unbounded need of approbation...My capacity for jealousy was something frightful. . . . Nobody dreamed of all this, and the 'taking-down ' system was pursued with me as with the rest,...
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The Congregational Quarterly, Volume 19

Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1877 - 642 pages
...the slightest indulgence shown to my natural affections, and any rational dealing with my faults. ... I had no self-respect, and an unbounded need of approbation...My capacity for jealousy was something frightful. . . . Nobody dreamed of all this, and the ' taking-down' system was pursued with me as with the rest,...
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, Volume 1

Harriet Martineau - Authors, English - 1877 - 630 pages
...and contemptuous treatment of the elder children, who meant no harm, but injured me irreparably. I_ had no selfrespect, and an unbounded need of approbation and affection. My capacity lor jealousy was somethlrigTfightFuE When we were little more than infants, Mr. Thomas Watson, son...
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Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 2

Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 310 pages
...must own that my heart has beat, all my life long, at the dancing of prismatic colors on the wall. It is evident enough that my temper must have been...My capacity for jealousy was something frightful. . . I tried for a long course of years — I should think from about eight to fourteen — to pass...
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Autobiography

Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 748 pages
...Martineau's mother was born and her maternal grandfather, Robert Rankin, a sugar refiner, still lived. but injured me irreparably. I had no self-respect,...home, across the street, to give her Gay's Fables, 1 bound in red and gold. I stood with a bursting heart, beating my hoop, and hating every body in the...
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