Memoirs of Andrew Winpenny, count de Deux Sous. By the author of 'Ned Clinton'.1838 |
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... soon as one fell vacant . Here again a novice in worldly affairs might fall into a mistake . He might imagine that the bishop , in his eagerness after promotion , imposed too weighty a task on his fair friend ; but this novice ought to ...
... soon as one fell vacant . Here again a novice in worldly affairs might fall into a mistake . He might imagine that the bishop , in his eagerness after promotion , imposed too weighty a task on his fair friend ; but this novice ought to ...
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... soon as my parent's misfortune had happened , posted away from the capital to make a visitation to his diocese ; and , finding his late mistress had lost all pretension to beauty , and that he had no church preferment to hope for from ...
... soon as my parent's misfortune had happened , posted away from the capital to make a visitation to his diocese ; and , finding his late mistress had lost all pretension to beauty , and that he had no church preferment to hope for from ...
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... soon spread his wings and depart , leaving the lovers to themselves to deplore his absence , and contemplate their own folly . He did this with Andrew and Diana Winpenny , long before I had arrived at a suitable age to know he had ever ...
... soon spread his wings and depart , leaving the lovers to themselves to deplore his absence , and contemplate their own folly . He did this with Andrew and Diana Winpenny , long before I had arrived at a suitable age to know he had ever ...
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... soon counterbalance the pleasure ; therefore , my next stage of the journey shall be performed in some easier manner . " With me , unless the ability fails , to will a thing is to do it ; and before many minutes had elapsed since my ...
... soon counterbalance the pleasure ; therefore , my next stage of the journey shall be performed in some easier manner . " With me , unless the ability fails , to will a thing is to do it ; and before many minutes had elapsed since my ...
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... soon as I had quitted my bed , which was at an early hour , I hastened away from the inn , to proceed on my journey . The morning was beautiful , and an excellent night's repose had thoroughly refreshed my limbs ; therefore I proceeded ...
... soon as I had quitted my bed , which was at an early hour , I hastened away from the inn , to proceed on my journey . The morning was beautiful , and an excellent night's repose had thoroughly refreshed my limbs ; therefore I proceeded ...
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Página 118 - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Página 86 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Página 96 - Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil : For Saints may do the same things by The Spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do ; And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the Saints and Wicked vary.
Página 1 - By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Página 14 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 35 - For he was of that noble trade, That demi-gods and heroes made, Slaughter, and knocking on the head, The trade to which they all were bred; And is, like others, glorious when Tis great and large, but base, if mean : The former rides in triumph for it, The latter in a two-wheel'd chariot, For daring to profane a thing So sacred with vile bungling.
Página 51 - And glory long has made the sages smile ; Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind — Depending more upon the historian's style, Than on the name a person leaves behind.
Página 45 - A crowd of shivering slaves of every nation, And age, and sex, were in the market ranged; Bach, bevy with the merchant in his station : Poor creatures!
Página 67 - This gleam of happiness continued not long : a tremendous sea rolling after us, broke over our stern, tore every thing before it, stove in the steerage, carried away the rudder, shivered the wheel to pieces, and tore up the very ring-bolts of the deck—conveyed the men who stood at the wheel forward, and swept them overboard.
Página 156 - Plenty of good land, and liberty to manage their own affairs in their own way" were the "two great causes" of colonial prosperity. As Nutter observes, there was a spirit of individualistic venture among the colonies that found economic expression in the belief that voluntary contracts were the proper organization principle of enterprise.