The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1854 |
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Page 4
... things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ; everything he said was right , was best , and was to the purpose , whoever was in company ...
... things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ; everything he said was right , was best , and was to the purpose , whoever was in company ...
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Daniel Defoe. thing in the world that anything could befall them all but that I must some time or other hear of them ... things of value I had about me , which , though considerable in themselves , were yet nothing to feed a family , and ...
Daniel Defoe. thing in the world that anything could befall them all but that I must some time or other hear of them ... things of value I had about me , which , though considerable in themselves , were yet nothing to feed a family , and ...
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... thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my face . I leave any one that is a mother ...
... thing after another , till those few things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my face . I leave any one that is a mother ...
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... things about me , looking them over , to see if I had anything among them that would sell or pawn for a little money , and had been crying ready to burst myself , to think what I should do next . At this juncture , they knocked at the ...
... things about me , looking them over , to see if I had anything among them that would sell or pawn for a little money , and had been crying ready to burst myself , to think what I should do next . At this juncture , they knocked at the ...
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... thing , their being taken into the parish keeping ; and then a hundred terrible things came into my thoughts , viz . , of parish children being starved at nurse ; of their being ruined , let grow crooked , lamed , and the like , for ...
... thing , their being taken into the parish keeping ; and then a hundred terrible things came into my thoughts , viz . , of parish children being starved at nurse ; of their being ruined , let grow crooked , lamed , and the like , for ...
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