The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, 第 20 巻T. Boys, 1826 |
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... asked for it , but not otherwise . She held in her right hand a cocoa- nut ; and in the left , a knife , and a small looking- glass , into which she continued to look , excepting when she turned her eyes towards heaven , exclaim- ing ...
... asked for it , but not otherwise . She held in her right hand a cocoa- nut ; and in the left , a knife , and a small looking- glass , into which she continued to look , excepting when she turned her eyes towards heaven , exclaim- ing ...
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... , " was like the spring , and her head was crowned with oriental pearls . As she drew near to me , she sighed , and gave me a hand which had long been the object of my tenderest wishes . " Do you recollect , ” she asked 40 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... , " was like the spring , and her head was crowned with oriental pearls . As she drew near to me , she sighed , and gave me a hand which had long been the object of my tenderest wishes . " Do you recollect , ” she asked 40 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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... asked , “ her who by engaging the affections of your youth , led you from the common road of life ? " While she spoke these words , which were accompanied with an air of mo- desty and earnestness , she sat down under a laurel and a ...
... asked , “ her who by engaging the affections of your youth , led you from the common road of life ? " While she spoke these words , which were accompanied with an air of mo- desty and earnestness , she sat down under a laurel and a ...
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... asked the lady to let her daughter come to Kingston , to stand god- mother for a child of his . She consented to his request , though by her compliance with it she de- prived herself of her daughter's company for a longer time ( there ...
... asked the lady to let her daughter come to Kingston , to stand god- mother for a child of his . She consented to his request , though by her compliance with it she de- prived herself of her daughter's company for a longer time ( there ...
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... asked who was her lover ? " 0 , ” said she , with great simplicity , " I have no lover ; I thought the city furnished every thing . " This being told to the Count , a worthy husband was sought out for the girl , and her marriage portion ...
... asked who was her lover ? " 0 , ” said she , with great simplicity , " I have no lover ; I thought the city furnished every thing . " This being told to the Count , a worthy husband was sought out for the girl , and her marriage portion ...
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110 ページ - Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the people, I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes ! my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them upon the beach with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other.
43 ページ - We pressed the missionary to tell us whether the Guahiba had peacefully enjoyed the happiness of remaining with her children ; and if any repentance had followed this excess of cruelty. He would not satisfy our...
57 ページ - she had the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age — and all at eighteen — the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor for her parents
5 ページ - Surely, the remembrance of your manner of life passed among us, your holy conversation, your wholesome counsels, your examples of virtue, of which there is hope, that they do not only persevere with you but that they are by God's grace, much more increased.
56 ページ - ... their parting would overcome the fortitude of both, and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy which their approaching end required of them : their separation, she said, would be only for a moment ; and they would soon rejoin each other in a scene where their affections would be for ever united, and where death, disappointment, and misfortunes could no longer have access to them, or disturb their eternal felicity".
56 ページ - ... should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower. She saw her husband led to execution ; and having given him from the window some token of her remembrance, she waited with tranquillity till her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate.
7 ページ - You would smile to see the concern she is in when I have a cause to plead, and the joy she shows when it is over. She finds means to have the first news brought her of the success I meet with in court, how I am heard, and what decree is made. If...