The Vicar of Wakefield: A TaleAlbert Cogswell, 1880 - 270 pages |
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... poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances . XI . The family still resolve to hold up their heads XII . Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wake- field . Mortifications are often more painful than real ...
... poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances . XI . The family still resolve to hold up their heads XII . Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wake- field . Mortifications are often more painful than real ...
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... poor . We had no revolutions to fear , nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fireside , and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown . As we lived near the road , we often had the traveller or stranger visit ...
... poor . We had no revolutions to fear , nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fireside , and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown . As we lived near the road , we often had the traveller or stranger visit ...
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... ; but never was the family of WAKEFIELD known to turn the traveller or the poor dependant out of doors . Thus we lived several years in a state of much happiness ; not but that we sometimes had those little. VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 3.
... ; but never was the family of WAKEFIELD known to turn the traveller or the poor dependant out of doors . Thus we lived several years in a state of much happiness ; not but that we sometimes had those little. VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 3.
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... poor , my fondlings , and wisdom bids us conform to our humble situation . Let us then , without repining , give up those splen- dours with which numbers are wretched , and seek in humbler circumstances that peace with which all may be ...
... poor , my fondlings , and wisdom bids us conform to our humble situation . Let us then , without repining , give up those splen- dours with which numbers are wretched , and seek in humbler circumstances that peace with which all may be ...
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... poor , who followed us for some miles , contributed to increase it . The first day's journey brought us in safety within thirty miles of our future retreat , and we put up for the night at an obscure inn in a village by the way . When ...
... poor , who followed us for some miles , contributed to increase it . The first day's journey brought us in safety within thirty miles of our future retreat , and we put up for the night at an obscure inn in a village by the way . When ...
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