The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... AFFECTION - filial - an implanted instinct , exalted by a feeling of gratitude and a sense of duty . — The Roman daugh- ter who nourished her imprisoned father , when condemned to be starved to death , from her own breast , has ...
... AFFECTION - filial - an implanted instinct , exalted by a feeling of gratitude and a sense of duty . — The Roman daugh- ter who nourished her imprisoned father , when condemned to be starved to death , from her own breast , has ...
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... affection by her almost heart - broken parents . If nothing can persuade her to listen to their joint appeal - should she be determined to bring their gray hairs with sorrow to the grave - should she never mean to revisit a home where ...
... affection by her almost heart - broken parents . If nothing can persuade her to listen to their joint appeal - should she be determined to bring their gray hairs with sorrow to the grave - should she never mean to revisit a home where ...
Page 88
... affection . Doomed to feel by daily experience , that a blind love is as bad as a clear - sighted hatred , the spoilt child , when he embitters the life of those who have poisoned his , is not so much committing an act of in- gratitude ...
... affection . Doomed to feel by daily experience , that a blind love is as bad as a clear - sighted hatred , the spoilt child , when he embitters the life of those who have poisoned his , is not so much committing an act of in- gratitude ...
Page 89
... affections . Prompt to feel the woes of others , the sympathetic strings of his heart , constantly attuned and tremulously sensitive , vibrated at every sigh of the sorrowful spirit , and responded full and deep to every sound of human ...
... affections . Prompt to feel the woes of others , the sympathetic strings of his heart , constantly attuned and tremulously sensitive , vibrated at every sigh of the sorrowful spirit , and responded full and deep to every sound of human ...
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... affections , the charms , the sanctities , the charities , of life ; and as benignant Nature ever blesses the individual who contributes to the advancement of his species , from the same source is derived our purest , most exquisite ...
... affections , the charms , the sanctities , the charities , of life ; and as benignant Nature ever blesses the individual who contributes to the advancement of his species , from the same source is derived our purest , most exquisite ...
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