 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1771 - 288 pages
...it to enter on that ftate, which, I have learned to believe, is replete with the genuine happinefs attendant upon virtue. I look back on the tenor of my life, with the confcioufnefs of few great offences to account for. There are blemifhes, I confefs, which deform in... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1800 - 188 pages
...my reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...the benignity of the Supreme Being, and rejoice at the thoughts of its exertion in my favour. My mind expands at the thought I shall enter into the society... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - English fiction - 1800 - 254 pages
...reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise.—It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...blemishes, I confess, which deform in some degree fhe picture. But I know the benignity of the Supreme Being, and rejoice at the thoughts of its exertion... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1801 - 196 pages
...leave it to enter on that ftate, which I have learned to believe is replete with the genuine happinefs attendant upon virtue. I look back on the tenor of my life, with the confcioufnefs of few great offences to account for. There are blemifhes, I confefs, which deform in... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 452 pages
...my reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...the benignity of the Supreme Being, and rejoice at the thoughts of its exercise in my favour. My mind expands at the thought that I shall enter into the... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1815 - 290 pages
...reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. — It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...the benignity of the Supreme Being, and rejoice at the thoughts of its exertion in my favour. My mind expands at the thought I shall enter into the society... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1815 - 302 pages
...reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise.— It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter on that state, which 1 have learned to believe is replete with the genuine happiness attendant upon virtue. I look back... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 294 pages
...have done otherwise. It was a VOL. XXIX. L scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappoint' ment. I leave it to enter on that state, which I have learned...great offences to account for. There are blemishes, 1 confess, which deform in some degree the picture ; but I know the benignity of the Supreme Being,... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 326 pages
...reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. — It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...tenor of my life, with the consciousness of few great offence? to account for. There are blemishes, I confess, which deform in some degree the picture. But... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...my reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter...the benignity of the Supreme Being, and rejoice at the thoughts of its exercise in my favour. My mind expands at the thought that I shall enter into the... | |
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... delighted. I was not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the dissipation of the gay ; a thousand things occurred where I blushed for the impropriety of my conduct when I thought on the world, though my reason told me I should have blushed to have... 
