Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eaterTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 347 sider |
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... less upon the mere amiableness of quick sensibilities , or more entirely upon massy substructions of principle and con- science , than the morality of the British middle classes . Books , literature , institutions of police , facts ...
... less upon the mere amiableness of quick sensibilities , or more entirely upon massy substructions of principle and con- science , than the morality of the British middle classes . Books , literature , institutions of police , facts ...
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... less , after that time , upon the death of a sister , who must have been one year older than myself ; I , that is to say , a few months more than two , she than three . At this time I was afflicted with ague , and suffered under it for ...
... less , after that time , upon the death of a sister , who must have been one year older than myself ; I , that is to say , a few months more than two , she than three . At this time I was afflicted with ague , and suffered under it for ...
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... various people , naming them , and complaining of their desertion . The person who had gathered us together , raised my father's hand and laid it upon my head . - We left the room ; and in less than two minutes 3 EARLY DAYS . 25.
... various people , naming them , and complaining of their desertion . The person who had gathered us together , raised my father's hand and laid it upon my head . - We left the room ; and in less than two minutes 3 EARLY DAYS . 25.
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... less than two minutes we heard it announced that all was over . My father's death made little or no change in the house- hold economy , except that my mother ever afterwards kept a carriage ; which my father , in effect , exacted upon ...
... less than two minutes we heard it announced that all was over . My father's death made little or no change in the house- hold economy , except that my mother ever afterwards kept a carriage ; which my father , in effect , exacted upon ...
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... less than forty thousand pounds . At a very early age , she had married a young Oxonian , distinguished for nothing but a very handsome person : and from him she had speedily separated , on the agreement of dividing the fortune . My ...
... less than forty thousand pounds . At a very early age , she had married a young Oxonian , distinguished for nothing but a very handsome person : and from him she had speedily separated , on the agreement of dividing the fortune . My ...
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