Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... expected , after the proper performance of so much duty to the state , he was re- warded according to his deserts , and still went on praising and promoting those excellent things , which in the course of this world it occasionally ...
... expected , after the proper performance of so much duty to the state , he was re- warded according to his deserts , and still went on praising and promoting those excellent things , which in the course of this world it occasionally ...
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... expected child had not been a son , whose future fate , during the time he had been looking for his ap- pearance , had not been forgotten amidst the dreams of his ambition . But all these visions were now as if they had ne- ver been ...
... expected child had not been a son , whose future fate , during the time he had been looking for his ap- pearance , had not been forgotten amidst the dreams of his ambition . But all these visions were now as if they had ne- ver been ...
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... expected to inspire , was considerably lessened by the gradual manner in which Lady Vincent's mind had been prepared for it . She had long been visited with many misgivings as to the result of her brother's hesitation upon this point ...
... expected to inspire , was considerably lessened by the gradual manner in which Lady Vincent's mind had been prepared for it . She had long been visited with many misgivings as to the result of her brother's hesitation upon this point ...
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... expected that she should cast a very favourable eye upon her pupil . In truth she hated her ; and but that the com- forts of her situation were too real and substantial to be given up , she would not have retained it , under the ...
... expected that she should cast a very favourable eye upon her pupil . In truth she hated her ; and but that the com- forts of her situation were too real and substantial to be given up , she would not have retained it , under the ...
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... expected , as to take her companion off her hands . " This arrangement , through the medium of the complaisant Mademoiselle , was completed without any difficulty . The reply , on the part of the Captain , was filled with such a more ...
... expected , as to take her companion off her hands . " This arrangement , through the medium of the complaisant Mademoiselle , was completed without any difficulty . The reply , on the part of the Captain , was filled with such a more ...
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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.