The Jealous Wife, Том 1

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Hurst and Blackett, 1855

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Стр. 165 - ... whose office is to soothe, not irritate — whose voice should be soft as an echo of the mountain vales — whose wit should be accidental — whose enthusiasm, silent expression, and whose empire resides in her graces, her smiles, her tears, her gentleness, and her virtues, it makes me mad. It is laying down the cestus of Venus to brandish the club of Hercules. " I insist upon it, Pelham is an immoral book...
Стр. 222 - I cannot now offer you affluence — I may not be enabled to do so for years to come — Can you forego it for my sake ? If so, trust me that it will come at last.
Стр. 121 - IT is marvellous that although daily experience should suffice to prove that we are at best the poor creatures of circumstance, the mere puppets of accident, we are all prone to believe that nothing can go on satisfactorily unless, even while professing to trust in providence...
Стр. 121 - ... we undertake to guide the whole action of the machinery ourselves ; and thus, too often, instead of being, as we fondly and blindly imagine, the spiders that weave the web, we find ourselves in the end, merely the flies that have been caught in it. Such was, in a great degree, the case with Mr.

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