Autobiographic Sketches, Bind 11–12Houghton, Mifflin, 1876 - 593 sider |
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Side 7
... • " Those who knew him a little might call him a loose man in money matters ; those who knew him closer laughed at the idea of coupling any notion of pecuniary or other like responsibility with his nature . You might as well INTRODUCTION .
... • " Those who knew him a little might call him a loose man in money matters ; those who knew him closer laughed at the idea of coupling any notion of pecuniary or other like responsibility with his nature . You might as well INTRODUCTION .
Side 8
... nature of his necessities , which he very freely states , to seven shillings and sixpence . Discovering , vr fancying he discovers , that his eloquence is likely to prove unproductive , he is fortu- nately reminded , that , should there ...
... nature of his necessities , which he very freely states , to seven shillings and sixpence . Discovering , vr fancying he discovers , that his eloquence is likely to prove unproductive , he is fortu- nately reminded , that , should there ...
Side 11
... nature removed them from him . It may be questioned if he ever knew what it was to eat a good dinner , ' or could even comprehend the nature of such a felicity . Yet in all the sensuous nerves which connect as it were the body with the ...
... nature removed them from him . It may be questioned if he ever knew what it was to eat a good dinner , ' or could even comprehend the nature of such a felicity . Yet in all the sensuous nerves which connect as it were the body with the ...
Side 29
... natural movement of such a narrative , to prevent oblique gleams reaching the reader from such circumstances of luxury or aristocratic elegance as surrounded my childhood , that on all accounts I think it better to tell him , from the ...
... natural movement of such a narrative , to prevent oblique gleams reaching the reader from such circumstances of luxury or aristocratic elegance as surrounded my childhood , that on all accounts I think it better to tell him , from the ...
Side 33
... nature had forced me to revolt , it was brutality and violence . Now , a whisper arose in the family that a female servant , who by accident was drawn off from her proper duties to attend my sister Jane for a ay or two , had on one ...
... nature had forced me to revolt , it was brutality and violence . Now , a whisper arose in the family that a female servant , who by accident was drawn off from her proper duties to attend my sister Jane for a ay or two , had on one ...
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