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" ... yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me... "
The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ... - Page 286
1770
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Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women

Samuel Burder - Women - 1836 - 756 pages
...to eat and sleep with. All these tilings are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be ; yet, all this is that I enjoy not the world iu my own way, and this sure hinders my comfort. When I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure...
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The Christian correspondent, letters exemplifying the fruits of ..., Volume 1

Christian correspondent - 1837 - 422 pages
...to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now ; the day unwelcome, and the night so too ; all company and meals I would avoid, if it might...that I enjoy not the world in my own way, and this sure hinders my comfort; when I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them...
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Reflections After Reading; Or, Sketches, Biographical, Ecclesiastical, and ...

John Cockin - 1843 - 480 pages
...to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so too ; all company and meals I would avoid, if it might be. When I see my children before me, I • " There was something uncommonly pathetic in his reply to James...
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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 3

Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 484 pages
...with, to eat, to sleep with. All these things are irksome to me. The day unwelcome, and the night so too : all company and meals I would avoid, if it might be. * * * When I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them ; this makes my heart...
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The Englishwoman's magazine and Christian mother's miscellany ..., Volume 3

Mary Milner - 1848 - 808 pages
...brief extracts: with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with ; all which things are irksome to me now ; all company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...this is, that I enjoy not the world in my own way." Again, after visiting her husband's tomb, Lady Russell thus writes : " Doctor, I had considered I went...
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Moral Heroism; Or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good

Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 pages
...to eat and sleep with: all these things arc irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so too: all company and meals I would avoid, if it might be." In a subsequent letter she says:— " You deal with me, Sir, just as I would be dealt withal; and it...
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The life of lady Russell

1847 - 206 pages
...to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so too ; all company and meals I would avoid, if it might...that I enjoy not the world in my own way, and this sore hinders my comfort ; when I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...with, to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now ; all company and meals I could avoid, if it might be. Yet all this is, that I enjoy not the world in my own way, and this same hinders my comfort. When I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them...
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Gems of Female Biography

Biography - 1852 - 798 pages
...with, and to eat with. All these things are irksome to me now ; the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might...that I enjoy not the world in my own way, and this sure hinders my comfort. When I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them....
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The Married Life of Rachel Lady Russell. Translated from the French [“L ...

François Guizot - 1855 - 130 pages
...to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now ; the day unwelcome, and the night so too; all company and meals I would avoid, if it might...that I enjoy not the world in my own way, and this sure, hinders my comfort : when I see my children before me, I remember the pleasure he took in them...
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