Doctor Thorne: A Novel, Volume 3

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Chapman & Hall, 1858 - 520 pages
 

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Page 18 - ... of religion than to its inward and spiritual graces. He delighted in lecterns and credence-tables, in services at dark hours of winter mornings when no one would attend, in high waistcoats and narrow white neckties, in chanted services and intoned prayers, and in all the paraphernalia of Anglican formalities which have given such offence to those of our brethren who live in daily fear of the scarlet lady.
Page 54 - Methodist preacher at last, — is in the habit of saying, after the grapes are sour, that had she only chosen to exert herself like a certain other young lady, she could have had Mr. Oriel easily, oh, too easily; but she had despised such work, she said. And Miss Gushing " stated it as a fact so often that it is probable she was induced to believe it herself."§ A later work of this very popular author supplies incidentally another sort of illustration.
Page 280 - But as the suggestion has not yet been carried out, and as there is at present no learned gentleman whose duty would induce him to set me right, I can only plead for mercy if I be wrong in allotting all Sir...

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