Jeannette Isabelle: A Novel, Հատոր 1John Richardson, 1837 |
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... nature , and the sunshine of the smile that played for ever about the mouth of Lady Emily , were enough to account in themselves both for the number of her worshippers , and the devotion of their idolatry . The regularity of her teeth ...
... nature , and the sunshine of the smile that played for ever about the mouth of Lady Emily , were enough to account in themselves both for the number of her worshippers , and the devotion of their idolatry . The regularity of her teeth ...
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... nature ever entered her head ; and what she said off - hand to amuse herself and others , was nothing but the result of her gaieté de cœur , and an overflow of natural spirits , com- bined with a lively perception of the ridiculous . We ...
... nature ever entered her head ; and what she said off - hand to amuse herself and others , was nothing but the result of her gaieté de cœur , and an overflow of natural spirits , com- bined with a lively perception of the ridiculous . We ...
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... nature— and just at this moment he has got such radical crotchets in his head , that I wonder my poor dear good Tory papa does not have a fit of Conservative gout every day after dinner at some of his speeches . ” “ Well , ” rejoined ...
... nature— and just at this moment he has got such radical crotchets in his head , that I wonder my poor dear good Tory papa does not have a fit of Conservative gout every day after dinner at some of his speeches . ” “ Well , ” rejoined ...
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... natural Rousseau ! what a charm there is about his every page , and what a command of sympathy in his every ... Nature , it seems to me that his tenderness must win all hearts that can feel , and his truth triumph with all heads ...
... natural Rousseau ! what a charm there is about his every page , and what a command of sympathy in his every ... Nature , it seems to me that his tenderness must win all hearts that can feel , and his truth triumph with all heads ...
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... nature , the dignity he confers upon mankind by picturing what we might become , when all this mass of deception , and illusion , and trickery shall be swept away , when governments shall exist only for the good of all , and virtue ...
... nature , the dignity he confers upon mankind by picturing what we might become , when all this mass of deception , and illusion , and trickery shall be swept away , when governments shall exist only for the good of all , and virtue ...
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Էջ 156 - It may have been so, sir. But I have a bad opinion of Black. I don't think he would stick at much." "It is just this, Geoff, as I believe: that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.
Էջ 236 - A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y.'—In short the learned pig Toby would have passed a much more creditable examination. Mrs- Blandford, almost in despair, at last brought out with an air of exultation her eldest child of all, a pretty little girl enough, who was to be examined in nothing less than the church catechism. She answered rightly the two first questions...
Էջ 205 - TO-DAY ia the scale-beam between to-morrow and yesterday ; it inclines to joy or sorrow, as our minds are swayed by the influences of the past or the future ; and it varies, on different sides, from elevation to depression, as our hopes or fears, our painful recollections or our soft regrets predominate. WE never injure our own characters so much, as when we attack those of others.
Էջ 83 - Of course, the fair side is always presented towards them, and all the darker traits and wilder extravagancies, are sedulously concealed on the reverse. This makes it so doubly dangerous for a girl to consult only her own preferences, and her own will, in making her choice for life; and this also proves the expediency, on all occasions, of taking the advice of some experienced male counsellor.