Recollections of a Chaperon, Volum 2Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (successor to Henry Colburn.), 1833 |
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Pàgina 8
... answered , but his wife was very good - natured , and said , that perhaps we should do very well in America ; she had a cousin once that made a great fortune somewhere beyond seas , and that it was very true what John said , we should ...
... answered , but his wife was very good - natured , and said , that perhaps we should do very well in America ; she had a cousin once that made a great fortune somewhere beyond seas , and that it was very true what John said , we should ...
Pàgina 14
... answered , ' Yes , sir ; but I have got safe through more than half of it , and I hope , with the blessing of God , to get safe through the rest of it to my husband , to nurse him in his illness . ' " " Oh ! he's ill , that's it ...
... answered , ' Yes , sir ; but I have got safe through more than half of it , and I hope , with the blessing of God , to get safe through the rest of it to my husband , to nurse him in his illness . ' " " Oh ! he's ill , that's it ...
Pàgina 16
... answered , He lives out yonder . ' He lives ! and when I heard him say that , I first knew I had been afraid of never seeing John again . " Iran as well as I could to the hut . It looked wretched , and half - finished ; the door was ...
... answered , He lives out yonder . ' He lives ! and when I heard him say that , I first knew I had been afraid of never seeing John again . " Iran as well as I could to the hut . It looked wretched , and half - finished ; the door was ...
Pàgina 23
... answered the lady , who never could endure her husband's jolly friend , who certainly did eat , drink , talk , and laugh thirteen to the dozen , but who , she not unwisely thought , would be a very bad ingredient in this refined party ...
... answered the lady , who never could endure her husband's jolly friend , who certainly did eat , drink , talk , and laugh thirteen to the dozen , but who , she not unwisely thought , would be a very bad ingredient in this refined party ...
Pàgina 24
... answered Mrs. Heck- field , who had long ago prepared her list in her mind , " and Sir James Ashgrove ( as you wish ) , and young Mr. Lyon , Lord Petersfield's nephew , and Sir Alan Byway , the great traveller , and Miss Pennefeather ...
... answered Mrs. Heck- field , who had long ago prepared her list in her mind , " and Sir James Ashgrove ( as you wish ) , and young Mr. Lyon , Lord Petersfield's nephew , and Sir Alan Byway , the great traveller , and Miss Pennefeather ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 101 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Pàgina 106 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Pàgina 119 - When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong...
Pàgina 149 - Concerning the Materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For, if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Pàgina 120 - God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged: but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong ambitions and false ideas of what is good and laudable ; and should therefore be exploded by all governments, and driven out as the bane and plague of human society.
Pàgina 109 - When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find, He most of all doth bathe in bliss that hath a quiet mind; And, clear from worldly cares, to deem can be content The sweetest time in all his life in thinking to be spent. The body subject is to fickle fortune's power, And to a million of mishaps is casual every hour. And death in time doth change it to a clod of clay...