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... DEAR S : Since my arrival here , I have received a number of letters from you , the latest on Tuesday last , and have written you once . My last letter describes the state of things as they then existed , but it did not convey an ...
... DEAR S : Since my arrival here , I have received a number of letters from you , the latest on Tuesday last , and have written you once . My last letter describes the state of things as they then existed , but it did not convey an ...
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... dear , noble - minded mother , doated on me with a fondness which only minds like hers can feel for their offspring . The indulgence I met with from my parents , the adulation paid me by the world , ill prepared me for the rude storms ...
... dear , noble - minded mother , doated on me with a fondness which only minds like hers can feel for their offspring . The indulgence I met with from my parents , the adulation paid me by the world , ill prepared me for the rude storms ...
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... dear . He is too young to be secured . He must have a profession . ' And Mr. Alford brought his hand down upon the table with a force which by some mysterious law of reäction raised Mrs. Alford just three inches in her chair . ' Law is ...
... dear . He is too young to be secured . He must have a profession . ' And Mr. Alford brought his hand down upon the table with a force which by some mysterious law of reäction raised Mrs. Alford just three inches in her chair . ' Law is ...
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... dear , ' said Mrs. Alford ; the daughters are not dissipated , and I am a merchant's daughter . They are mar- rying off fast . Would it not be well to have Edward engaged and then go abroad , that absence might fix his affections ...
... dear , ' said Mrs. Alford ; the daughters are not dissipated , and I am a merchant's daughter . They are mar- rying off fast . Would it not be well to have Edward engaged and then go abroad , that absence might fix his affections ...
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... dear ! now I feel better : perhaps this will be the end of Looney . I feel as if I was trying to be turned inside out . Mr. Edward is confined to his berth all to - day . I can write no more . I advertise you never to sail on the ...
... dear ! now I feel better : perhaps this will be the end of Looney . I feel as if I was trying to be turned inside out . Mr. Edward is confined to his berth all to - day . I can write no more . I advertise you never to sail on the ...
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Page 197 - doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. ' He cannot flatter, he ! An honest mind, and plain — he must speak truth : An ' if they take it, so ; if not, he 's plain !
Page 201 - the lost Friend still mysteriously here, even as we are here, mysteriously, with GOD ? Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished or are perishable ; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and for ever!
Page 203 - all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless shoreless flood of Action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The withered leaf is not dead and lost; there are forces in it and around it, though working in
Page 498 - avenues, thou the earth-blinded, summonest both Past and Future, and communest with them, though as yet darkly, and with mute beckonings. The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up ; but yesterday and to-morrow both are.
Page 591 - on this side them.' And yet, GOD deliver us from pinching poverty ; and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful ! Let us not repine, or so much, as think the gifts of GOD
Page 588 - content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere
Page 95 - the rushing off of its thousand mills, like the boom of an Atlantic tide ; ten thousand times ten thousand spools and spindles all set humming there ? It is perhaps, if thou knew it well, sublime as a Niagara, or more so.
Page 299 - Nature! art thou not the Living Garment of God? O Heavens! is it in very deed HE then that ever speaks through thee ; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and
Page 75 - I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness.
Page 203 - As I rode through the Schwarzwald, I said to myself: ' That little fire which glows star-like across the dark-growing moor, where the sooty smith bends over his anvil, is it a detached, separated speck,