Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 pages |
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... Tavistock Place , November 30 , 1811 . I HAVE desired John to give you half - a- crown . You did not say how you sprained your thumb ; but I can very easily account for its having been done by wanton play . I wrote you word about your ...
... Tavistock Place , November 30 , 1811 . I HAVE desired John to give you half - a- crown . You did not say how you sprained your thumb ; but I can very easily account for its having been done by wanton play . I wrote you word about your ...
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... Tavistock Place , October 17 , 1812 . THE brightest feature in a generous and 1 The gentlemanly mind , is the acknowledgment of error . contrition you have expressed for your late conduct to your mamma and myself , and its being your ...
... Tavistock Place , October 17 , 1812 . THE brightest feature in a generous and 1 The gentlemanly mind , is the acknowledgment of error . contrition you have expressed for your late conduct to your mamma and myself , and its being your ...
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... Tavistock Place , September 11 , 1813 . I HAVE just heard the melancholy news of my dear mother's death , and can easily conceive what must be your sensations by what I feel myself . Her virtues are now to be remunerated by substantial ...
... Tavistock Place , September 11 , 1813 . I HAVE just heard the melancholy news of my dear mother's death , and can easily conceive what must be your sensations by what I feel myself . Her virtues are now to be remunerated by substantial ...
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... Tavistock Place , September 14 , 1813 . YOUR sister , the children , and myself , are uneasy on account of your long silence ; but perhaps it may more justly be considered to have arisen from 72.
... Tavistock Place , September 14 , 1813 . YOUR sister , the children , and myself , are uneasy on account of your long silence ; but perhaps it may more justly be considered to have arisen from 72.
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... Tavistock Place , September 27 , 1813 . Now that the melancholy rite has been performed , and you have paid the last tribute of attach- ment to the late excellent partner of your happiness , I hope that your mind has returned to a state ...
... Tavistock Place , September 27 , 1813 . Now that the melancholy rite has been performed , and you have paid the last tribute of attach- ment to the late excellent partner of your happiness , I hope that your mind has returned to a state ...
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Page 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Page 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.