Preferment: Or, My Uncle the Earl, Svazek 1H. Colburn, 1840 |
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Strana 18
... felt reluctant that their latter days should be uncheered by the society of their children's children . The occasional answers to the letters of ceremony addressed to his wife by the Countess tended to prove that her ladyship had never ...
... felt reluctant that their latter days should be uncheered by the society of their children's children . The occasional answers to the letters of ceremony addressed to his wife by the Countess tended to prove that her ladyship had never ...
Strana 26
... felt himself unequal to the achievement . For such magnanimities there might come a time hereafter ; at present he was firmly resolved against remaining the obscure younger son of an obscure younger brother . With this view , on his ...
... felt himself unequal to the achievement . For such magnanimities there might come a time hereafter ; at present he was firmly resolved against remaining the obscure younger son of an obscure younger brother . With this view , on his ...
Strana 37
... felt persuaded my father would hold out for several years to come ; so that , as there seemed no probability of my seat falling vacant , I allowed Egerton to leave Eng- land for the grand tour only six weeks ago . In our time , you know ...
... felt persuaded my father would hold out for several years to come ; so that , as there seemed no probability of my seat falling vacant , I allowed Egerton to leave Eng- land for the grand tour only six weeks ago . In our time , you know ...
Strana 47
... and been shaken hands with by the new Earl , the butler would probably have felt inclined to double - lock his plate - room . At length , the housekeeper suggested that the melancholy individual MY UNCLE THE EARL . 47.
... and been shaken hands with by the new Earl , the butler would probably have felt inclined to double - lock his plate - room . At length , the housekeeper suggested that the melancholy individual MY UNCLE THE EARL . 47.
Strana 66
... felt herself entitled , and to which , on her marriage with Lord Egerton , she had secretly trusted to be speedily promoted by the death of their valetudinarian father , soon set to work the invention of the London vanity- mongers ; and ...
... felt herself entitled , and to which , on her marriage with Lord Egerton , she had secretly trusted to be speedily promoted by the death of their valetudinarian father , soon set to work the invention of the London vanity- mongers ; and ...
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Preferment; or, My uncle the earl Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances),Catherine Grace F. Gore Úplné zobrazení - 1857 |
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Strana 122 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Strana 246 - All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience...
Strana 58 - The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed, that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men, inclines them to please others ; and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love.
Strana 37 - It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
Strana 36 - Forgive me this my virtue : For, in the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curb and woo, for leave to do him good.
Strana 244 - How is it possible to expect that Mankind will take Advice, when they will not so much as take Warning...
Strana 161 - I lose Riches ; and a wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read ; To himself he lives and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school I...
Strana 282 - Tis not the stoick's lessons got by rote, The pomp of words, and pedant dissertations, That can sustain thee in that hour of terror ; Books have taught cowards to talk nobly of it, But when the trial comes, they stand aghast ; Hast thou consider'd what may happen after it ? How thy account may stand, and what to answer f Cal.
Strana 171 - I must tell you, sir, Virtue, if not in action, is a vice, And, when we move not forward, we go backward : Nor is this peace, the nurse of drones and cowards, Our health, but a disease.
Strana 138 - FilPd with false rumours and seditious trouble, Bred in assemblies of the vulgar sort, That still are led with every light report. And as her ears, so eke her feet were odd, And much unlike; th...