Jeannette Isabelle: A Novel, Հատոր 1John Richardson, 1837 |
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... societies tending to the same end in different countries , where their existence is known , although their secret ramifications are un- revealed , and only discovered by their results : there is la jeune France , and la jeune Allemagne ...
... societies tending to the same end in different countries , where their existence is known , although their secret ramifications are un- revealed , and only discovered by their results : there is la jeune France , and la jeune Allemagne ...
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... society with the same familiarity and equality which he often assumed towards his favourite domestic ; but if he was proud , he was also vain ; and so necessary is the fuel of flattery to vanity , that some degree of pleasure is ...
... society with the same familiarity and equality which he often assumed towards his favourite domestic ; but if he was proud , he was also vain ; and so necessary is the fuel of flattery to vanity , that some degree of pleasure is ...
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... exactly the reverse ; no sooner is a woman in society known to have committed the enormity of saying a brilliant thing , than a run is made upon her as if she were a wild animal , or a Bedlamite broke 18 JEANNETTE ISABELLE .
... exactly the reverse ; no sooner is a woman in society known to have committed the enormity of saying a brilliant thing , than a run is made upon her as if she were a wild animal , or a Bedlamite broke 18 JEANNETTE ISABELLE .
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... society must be reconstructed on a juster basis ; equality of rights must be proclaimed to all mankind ; and then , then , I shall be able to woo her in the world's eyes , and wed her with the world's approbation . Prejudices will ...
... society must be reconstructed on a juster basis ; equality of rights must be proclaimed to all mankind ; and then , then , I shall be able to woo her in the world's eyes , and wed her with the world's approbation . Prejudices will ...
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... society , now resi- dent in Paris , at the marriage just contracted in Italy , by the young and handsome Lord Cly , a minor , with a fair Neapolitan baroness . Report says , that the family of a noble earl have a right to consider ...
... society , now resi- dent in Paris , at the marriage just contracted in Italy , by the young and handsome Lord Cly , a minor , with a fair Neapolitan baroness . Report says , that the family of a noble earl have a right to consider ...
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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.