Universal Letter Writer: With Letters from the Writings of Sir Walter Scott, Hannah More, Dr. Johnson, [and Others]. Th which are Added The Complete Petitioner, Forms of Law, Cards of Compliment, &c., Also, A New English GrammarT. Nelson and Sons, 1855 |
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... continue to persevere as you have be- gun ; in making the best of your time . It will prepare C you for active life , be a pleasure to your. DIFFERENT RELATIONS . 33 Brotherly love exemplified Parental affection and religious advices.
... continue to persevere as you have be- gun ; in making the best of your time . It will prepare C you for active life , be a pleasure to your. DIFFERENT RELATIONS . 33 Brotherly love exemplified Parental affection and religious advices.
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... continue to attend to your business with the same diligence you have hitherto done ; that you will live with prudence and economy ; and if you should live to an old age , that you will then be able to retire from trade with honour both ...
... continue to attend to your business with the same diligence you have hitherto done ; that you will live with prudence and economy ; and if you should live to an old age , that you will then be able to retire from trade with honour both ...
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... continue virtuous and obliging , all the family will love and esteem you . Keep yourself employed as much as you can , and be always ready to assist your fellow servants . Never speak ill of any body ; but if you do hear a bad story ...
... continue virtuous and obliging , all the family will love and esteem you . Keep yourself employed as much as you can , and be always ready to assist your fellow servants . Never speak ill of any body ; but if you do hear a bad story ...
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... seriously , and follow carefully , I beseech you , my dear child , the advice which from time to time I bave given , and shall continue to give you it is at once the result of my long experience , and the 40 LETTERS TO AND FROM.
... seriously , and follow carefully , I beseech you , my dear child , the advice which from time to time I bave given , and shall continue to give you it is at once the result of my long experience , and the 40 LETTERS TO AND FROM.
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... continues to increase , I shall be greatly in want of one of your prudence to manage my domestic affairs . Be assured , madam , that the time I can spare on my return to the home to which your society can impart an unfading charm , will ...
... continues to increase , I shall be greatly in want of one of your prudence to manage my domestic affairs . Be assured , madam , that the time I can spare on my return to the home to which your society can impart an unfading charm , will ...
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A. B. Sheweth,-That affection agreeable Answer assured blessed Christ Church College circumstances City of London comfort conduct consider convinced creditors daughter dear Father death desire distress doubt duty bound employed endeavour executors favour Gentleman George Wilson give glad to hear greatest happy heart Henry Kirk White hope humble petition humble servant humbly prays husband John Bale LADY Let me beg LETTER live London Lord Lordship Madam Majesty's manner marriage master mention mind misfortunes mother nature ness never obliged parents person petition of A. B. pleased pleasure pounds present PROSODY racter received respect Right Honourable rusal sensible sent sentence Sheweth,-That your petitioner sincere well-wisher syllables tell tender thee thing thoughts tion trade trust unto utmost Valentine virtue vowels whilst Widow wife words Worshipful worthy write young youth
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Page 172 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 183 - I or my heirs, executors or administrators, hereafter can, shall or may have, for, upon or by reason of any matter, cause, or thing whatsoever from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 86 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. All these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes...
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Page 181 - Day of in the Year of the Reign of our Sovereign LADY VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 177 - God, calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT : That is to say, principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
Page 110 - I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years of struggle and distress had bound us fast together, and moulded our tempers to each other, — when a knowledge of her worth had refined my youthful love into friendship, before age had deprived it of much of its original ardour, — I lost her, alas ! (the choice of my youth, and the partner of my misfortunes) at a moment when I had the prospect of her sharing my better days.
Page 177 - I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give...
Page 177 - Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body. and knowing that it is Appointed for all men once to die. do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that Is to say principally and first of all.
Page 86 - ... tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind ; and, at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called ; so ever fresh, and green and warm are all the inventions of men, and assemblies of men in this great city.