Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volumes 1-2Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... duty and her happiness ; that his will is the happiness of his crea- tures ; and that her duty was to make her children and herself use- ful in the great work of promoting happiness . The brother and mother sought and found employment ...
... duty and her happiness ; that his will is the happiness of his crea- tures ; and that her duty was to make her children and herself use- ful in the great work of promoting happiness . The brother and mother sought and found employment ...
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... duty required her attendance , ( some service not otherwise to be performed for her protectors , ) to avoid any communication with the recesses of the theatre . To introduce the subject to her friends , as they were situated , was a ...
... duty required her attendance , ( some service not otherwise to be performed for her protectors , ) to avoid any communication with the recesses of the theatre . To introduce the subject to her friends , as they were situated , was a ...
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... duty calls you before the public - and my appearance does not command respect from the ignorant , or shield my conduct from the suspicions or the censures of the libertine . My pleasure is in retirement . The gay frequenters of the ...
... duty calls you before the public - and my appearance does not command respect from the ignorant , or shield my conduct from the suspicions or the censures of the libertine . My pleasure is in retirement . The gay frequenters of the ...
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... duty to them requires ) to false delicacy or any improper motive . " Her " good aunt " sat petrified during this address . She had never heard any thing like it from female mouth before , and thought the girl " possessed . " Mrs ...
... duty to them requires ) to false delicacy or any improper motive . " Her " good aunt " sat petrified during this address . She had never heard any thing like it from female mouth before , and thought the girl " possessed . " Mrs ...
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... duty , more especially , to account for that morbid sensibility , which was woven into his very essence , on the subject of ebriety ; that dread which he entertained of the effects of any approach to a habit of intemperance - a dread ...
... duty , more especially , to account for that morbid sensibility , which was woven into his very essence , on the subject of ebriety ; that dread which he entertained of the effects of any approach to a habit of intemperance - a dread ...
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Página 45 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 106 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Página 73 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Página 45 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Página 215 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Página 45 - Would to God a like spirit miylit diffuse, itself generally into the minds of the. people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of Slavery ; but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but by degrees it certainly might and assuredly ought to be effected, and that, too, by legislative authority.
Página 73 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 159 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.