... so many more inducements than young nations to tempt men of leisure and cultivation to reside in them, that it is not surprising the travelled American should prefer Europe to his own quarter of the world ; but the jealousy of a provincial people... Letters of the Late Lord Littelton - Página 41por William Combe - 1812 - 252 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Combe - 1806 - 268 páginas
...visionary coronet suspended over my brow. You are a simpleton and a parasite to let such weak reasons S4 •guide you to wag your tail and play the spaniel,...the breaking of his heart from the wicked life of his graceless son. Now, 1 will tell you a secret, that, supposing such a canting prophecy should take... | |
| William Combe - 1807 - 310 páginas
...do not envy you your sniveling virtues, which are worse than the worst of vices, and give an example of meanness and hypocrisy in the extreme. — Your...the breaking of his heart from the wicked life of his graceless son. Now, I will tell you a secret, that, supposing such a canting prophecy should take... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1846 - 656 páginas
...the world; but the jealousy of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, to a certain extent, that countries on the decline, supposing them to have been once at the summit... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 502 páginas
...the world; but the jealousy of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, to a certain extent, that countries on the decline, supposing them to have been once at the summit... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 562 páginas
...world ; but the jealousy i * of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, to B certain extent, that countries on the decline, supposing them to have been once at the summit... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 554 páginas
...world ; but the jealousy of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, to a certain extent, that countries on the decline, supposing them to have been once at the summit... | |
| 1867 - 968 páginas
...the love which those, who have no scruples, entertain for it, should so often amount to a passion. I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that some of onr most eminent writers of romances and poems went to their graves envious and dissatisfied... | |
| John Hall - 1871 - 426 páginas
...especially where their association with the family is close, as in the pleasant farm-houses of the land. I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that in Ulster, family worship was dropped in the families of many small farmers through the presence of... | |
| Thomas Frost - 1876 - 400 páginas
...expression, is, as he ought to be, abandoned by his family. You have dreamed of an hatchment upon Hagley House, and seen a visionary coronet suspended over...it to be true, that you pretend to lament your poor uncle's fate, and, with a more than rueful visage, prognosticate the breaking of his heart from the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1880 - 1062 páginas
...world ; but the jealousy of a provincial people is not apt to forgive this preference. For myself, I have heard it said, and I believe it to be true, to a certain extent, that countries on the decline, supposing them to have been once at the summit... | |
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