The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship; Business; Love, Courtship, and Marriage; Friendship, and Miscellaneous Letters: Selected from Judicious and Eminent WritersG. Davidson, 1827 - 276 páginas |
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... reason to complain of my neglect of writing to you ; but be assured , that my affections for you are the same they ever were . I readily confess , that the young lady you complain of , has in some measure been the cause of it . She is ...
... reason to complain of my neglect of writing to you ; but be assured , that my affections for you are the same they ever were . I readily confess , that the young lady you complain of , has in some measure been the cause of it . She is ...
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... reason to hope that his conduct will be equal to his promises ; and it will confer a lasting obligation on an afflicted pa- rent , and oblige Your sincere friend . LETTER 18 . The Master's Answer . SIR , Ever since I first considered ...
... reason to hope that his conduct will be equal to his promises ; and it will confer a lasting obligation on an afflicted pa- rent , and oblige Your sincere friend . LETTER 18 . The Master's Answer . SIR , Ever since I first considered ...
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... reason ? Does virtue appear unpleasant to you ? Is your beneficent Creator a hard task master , or are you re- solved to embark in the fashionable follies of a gay , un- thinking world ? Excuse me , my dear , I am a mother , and my ...
... reason ? Does virtue appear unpleasant to you ? Is your beneficent Creator a hard task master , or are you re- solved to embark in the fashionable follies of a gay , un- thinking world ? Excuse me , my dear , I am a mother , and my ...
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... reason , have not taken any thing more than you ordered ; I hope you will not be offended with what I have written ; as I shall always consider myself happy in performing my duty , and acquiring the favor of my honored parents . I am ...
... reason , have not taken any thing more than you ordered ; I hope you will not be offended with what I have written ; as I shall always consider myself happy in performing my duty , and acquiring the favor of my honored parents . I am ...
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... reason for not send- ing you an answer sooner , is , that it being an affair of great importance , I was willing to proceed therein with the utmost caution . I wrote to Mr. Johnson , my attor- ney in New - York , desiring him to inquire ...
... reason for not send- ing you an answer sooner , is , that it being an affair of great importance , I was willing to proceed therein with the utmost caution . I wrote to Mr. Johnson , my attor- ney in New - York , desiring him to inquire ...
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The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following ... Visualização integral - 1831 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance affairs affection affectionate affliction agreeable ancholy assure attended bad company battle of Fontenoy battle of Hastings behaviour bless Bloomingdale brother cerning character circumstances comply conduct consider convinced daugh daughter DEAR SIR desire doubt duty endeavor esteem excuse expect father fault favor fortune friendship Gentleman give glad greatest hand happy hear heart HONORED SIR hope humble servant husband impa indulgence Lady's Answer Let me beg LETTER libertines live lover Lucy Porter madam marriage married master mean ment merit mind Minorca miserable mother nature ness never obedient obliged occasion parents passion payment Persian empire person Peter Jackson pleased pleasure portunately present promise prudence reason received respect sent sentiments sincere well wisher sister soon sorry spected tenderness thing thought tion trade Tradesman unhappy Vauxhall Garden virtue whilst wife wish woman worthy write Young Lady
Passagens conhecidas
Página 219 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
Página 226 - We then relax our vigour and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Página 226 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Página 227 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Página 256 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Página 227 - Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair : but shall remember, that, though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one...
Página 228 - Those that have loved longest love best. A sudden blaze of kindness may by a single blast of coldness be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be depressed by disgust or resentment, with or without a cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection.
Página 226 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape, of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of...
Página 234 - You will then find comfort for the past, and support for the future. He that has given you happiness in marriage, to a degree of which, without personal knowledge, I should have thought the description fabulous, can give you another mode of happiness, as a mother ; and at last the happiness of losing all temporal cares in the thoughts of an eternity in Heaven.
Página 234 - I am not without my part of the calamity. No death since that of my wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember, that we are in the hands of Him who knows when to give and when to take away ; who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble.