Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 páginas |
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... TOWN , JAMAICA . DEAR JACK , Stock Exchange , 12th July , 1800 . IT has afforded your sister and myself much pleasure to hear of your safe arrival at Jamaica , and you will have equal pleasure to hear that Hannah and the children are in ...
... TOWN , JAMAICA . DEAR JACK , Stock Exchange , 12th July , 1800 . IT has afforded your sister and myself much pleasure to hear of your safe arrival at Jamaica , and you will have equal pleasure to hear that Hannah and the children are in ...
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... town this day , which I intended to have done in order to have seen Mr. Richard Oakley and yourself ; but perhaps " ' tis better as it is . " I am incapable of giving advice to those more competent than myself , and must beg to leave to ...
... town this day , which I intended to have done in order to have seen Mr. Richard Oakley and yourself ; but perhaps " ' tis better as it is . " I am incapable of giving advice to those more competent than myself , and must beg to leave to ...
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... town , and it will be presented to you by Mr. Harrison , who has under- taken to wait upon the country creditors , and who , knowing the whole proceedings , will be enabled to afford you explanation . I need not apologize to the ...
... town , and it will be presented to you by Mr. Harrison , who has under- taken to wait upon the country creditors , and who , knowing the whole proceedings , will be enabled to afford you explanation . I need not apologize to the ...
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... town on Saturday , your letter did not reach me until the evening ; but even if it had been received before , I could not have sent for you , on account of the illness of the coachman . The weather being bad , I hope you will make your ...
... town on Saturday , your letter did not reach me until the evening ; but even if it had been received before , I could not have sent for you , on account of the illness of the coachman . The weather being bad , I hope you will make your ...
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... town at that time , you shall not only have a ticket , but a bed also under my roof ; and which I hope and wish you to occupy as long as you can make it convenient to yourself . Mrs. Oakley , and the children in particular , will be ...
... town at that time , you shall not only have a ticket , but a bed also under my roof ; and which I hope and wish you to occupy as long as you can make it convenient to yourself . Mrs. Oakley , and the children in particular , will be ...
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acquainted affectionate Father affliction afford agreeable amiable assure attention B. O. To CAPTAIN B. O. To MASTER B. O. To MISS believe BENJAMIN OAKLEY BLACKHEATH BRITTON brother Captain Butcher CHARTER HOUSE CHRISTIANA Clapham Common comfort consolation DEAR ADRIANA DEAR BENJAMIN dear boy DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR December December 15 December 28 December 9 delight dine distress Drury Drury Lane Theatre duty EDWARD YOUNGE esteem express Farran favour feel friendship girls give glad to find happiness Harrogate heart honour hope Horsley indulgence JOHN BUTCHER Kean kind letter loving Father mamma March 22 melancholy mind MISS OAKLEY morning mother night November November 22 o'clock occasion offer Parrott pleasure poor pray proud R. R. OAKLEY Ravenhill received recollection regret request RICHARD OAKLEY Royal Exchange satisfaction sincerely sisters Tavistock Place tell thank theatre thing Tooting Lodge town WEOBLY wish
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Página 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Página 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Página 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Página 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Página 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.