Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... from her child , and , a few days af- ter its birth , expired . The first lamentations of Mr. Dorrington upon this event were very sincere . He certainly loved his wife with as much affection as a man who loved himself 6.
... from her child , and , a few days af- ter its birth , expired . The first lamentations of Mr. Dorrington upon this event were very sincere . He certainly loved his wife with as much affection as a man who loved himself 6.
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A Tale Mary Ann Kelty. with as much affection as a man who loved himself better than any thing else in the world could love another ; and the circumstance of her leaving him with a poor little , helpless , wailing girl to provide for ...
A Tale Mary Ann Kelty. with as much affection as a man who loved himself better than any thing else in the world could love another ; and the circumstance of her leaving him with a poor little , helpless , wailing girl to provide for ...
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... affection prompted her urgent desire to get him mar- ried again ; and , with a slight degree of malice not wholly ... affectionate monitions . The conse- quence of all this procrastination was , that he found himself , while he was ...
... affection prompted her urgent desire to get him mar- ried again ; and , with a slight degree of malice not wholly ... affectionate monitions . The conse- quence of all this procrastination was , that he found himself , while he was ...
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... affections , glowing with the delight of mere existence - pleased with eve- ry thing luxuriating in the charms of nature , with all the fresh enthusiasm of early youth , and feeling its own intense capability of happiness , panting to ...
... affections , glowing with the delight of mere existence - pleased with eve- ry thing luxuriating in the charms of nature , with all the fresh enthusiasm of early youth , and feeling its own intense capability of happiness , panting to ...
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... affection she believed herself to have inspired . To the Captain therefore she directed all the force of her charms . She was a very pretty girl , with an unbounded fund of spirits , and the sort of good hu- mour which thoughtlessness ...
... affection she believed herself to have inspired . To the Captain therefore she directed all the force of her charms . She was a very pretty girl , with an unbounded fund of spirits , and the sort of good hu- mour which thoughtlessness ...
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Page 31 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 50 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 39 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 107 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Page 93 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...
Page 97 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.