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 19by Harriet Martineau - 1877Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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