Dilemmas of Pride, Volume 1Bull and Churton, Holles street., 1833 |
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... mean absolutely to murmur ; but there was something pensive , at least , if not me- lancholy in such thoughts . While her son was a minor , Arden Park had still been hers , at least the right of living there ; but to - morrow she was to ...
... mean absolutely to murmur ; but there was something pensive , at least , if not me- lancholy in such thoughts . While her son was a minor , Arden Park had still been hers , at least the right of living there ; but to - morrow she was to ...
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... mean , for he was a very little , very ugly man , the express image of the knave of spades . He was , however , a vastly important personage , a bachelor baronet , with fifteen thou- sand a year , and a man of good family too , so that ...
... mean , for he was a very little , very ugly man , the express image of the knave of spades . He was , however , a vastly important personage , a bachelor baronet , with fifteen thou- sand a year , and a man of good family too , so that ...
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... that pride , that curse , which forbids to those so defrauded , the use of honest means for earning honest bread ! If , instead of this , all property which had been a father's , were , at his death , 50 DILEMMAS OF PRIDE .
... that pride , that curse , which forbids to those so defrauded , the use of honest means for earning honest bread ! If , instead of this , all property which had been a father's , were , at his death , 50 DILEMMAS OF PRIDE .
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... was the evening by any means one of unmixed delight to the Misses Salter . It was but too evident that even on the present occasion , when , if ever compliment was due to them , that the gentlemen evinced 56 DILEMMAS OF PRIDE .
... was the evening by any means one of unmixed delight to the Misses Salter . It was but too evident that even on the present occasion , when , if ever compliment was due to them , that the gentlemen evinced 56 DILEMMAS OF PRIDE .
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... absurd than that which is founded on the wilfully limited means employed for pro- ducing the desired end . Excellence , to challenge admiration , should be excellence in the abstract ; while he who would DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 87.
... absurd than that which is founded on the wilfully limited means employed for pro- ducing the desired end . Excellence , to challenge admiration , should be excellence in the abstract ; while he who would DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 87.
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