The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters, Volume 2John Donaldson, 1776 |
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... answered : Yet he put them with an air of teachablenefs , if I may fo ex- prefs myfelf ; and received the doctor's anivers to them with as much fatisfaction as if he were then newly enlightened by them . - Ah , my Lucy ! you imagine , I ...
... answered : Yet he put them with an air of teachablenefs , if I may fo ex- prefs myfelf ; and received the doctor's anivers to them with as much fatisfaction as if he were then newly enlightened by them . - Ah , my Lucy ! you imagine , I ...
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... answer for your fair coufin . He then led Mr Reeves in to Mr Bagenhall . This , Sir , is Mr Reeves . - Sir Hargrave , in fhort , Mr Reeves , among other demands that I cannot comply with ( but which relate only to myself , and therefore ...
... answer for your fair coufin . He then led Mr Reeves in to Mr Bagenhall . This , Sir , is Mr Reeves . - Sir Hargrave , in fhort , Mr Reeves , among other demands that I cannot comply with ( but which relate only to myself , and therefore ...
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... answered my end , in more licentious countries than this . I hope this ftep will preferve me from calls of this nature in my own country.- For God's fake , Sir Charles—- Be not uneafy on my account , Mr Reeves . Does not Sir Hargrave ...
... answered my end , in more licentious countries than this . I hope this ftep will preferve me from calls of this nature in my own country.- For God's fake , Sir Charles—- Be not uneafy on my account , Mr Reeves . Does not Sir Hargrave ...
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... answer . But where high refpect is enter- tained , grateful hearts will always , I believe , be ac- eufing themselves of imperfections , which none o- ther fee , or can charge them with . As Sir Charles is fafe , and I have now nothing ...
... answer . But where high refpect is enter- tained , grateful hearts will always , I believe , be ac- eufing themselves of imperfections , which none o- ther fee , or can charge them with . As Sir Charles is fafe , and I have now nothing ...
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... answered , it was not an ufual way ; but , in cafes of this nature where murder , and a trial , were expected to follow the rafhness , in a court of juftice , he thought it carried with it , though a face of premeditation , yet a look ...
... answered , it was not an ufual way ; but , in cafes of this nature where murder , and a trial , were expected to follow the rafhness , in a court of juftice , he thought it carried with it , though a face of premeditation , yet a look ...
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Page 166 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 112 - Yet, with a sigh o'er all mankind, I grant, In this our day of proof, our land of hope, The good man has his clouds that intervene ; Clouds, that obscure his sublunary day, But never conquer : ev'n the best must own, Patience, and resignation, are the pillars Of human peace on earth.
Page 55 - That young men, in their warm blood, are often forward to think they have in vain learned to fence if they never show their skill in a duel.
Page 216 - Oldham's economy in several of his letters. He had a right to do what he would with his own fortune. It was not ours till now. Whatever he has left us, he might have still lessened it. That economy is all that concerns us in interest ; and that is in her favour.