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acquaintance affection affectionate affliction agita Aldridge amanuensis amiable amusement asked attend aunt aware ball Bath beautiful began believe bewitching Blandford censure CHAP chaperon cheret conduct continued cousin Augusta Covent Garden daugh daughter dear Laura delight Dora Oglethorpe drawing-room duty endeavour endure entered esteem exclaimed eyes father father's love faults fear feel Flavia Oglethorpe folly girl gratify gusta happy heart hope hour idea idle indolent intreaties Jane Whitford join knew Laura felt LAURA VALCHERET longer looked manner ment midshipman mind Miss Anne Miss Carrington Miss Flavia Miss Oglethorpes Miss Staffords Miss Val Miss Valcheret morning mother neglect ness never niece offended painful parent party passed pleasure promises Pulteney street punishment refused regret repentance replied reproach rington seemed Selina silence sincerity sister sorrow spirits Sydney Gardens talking tears thing thought Laura tion unhappiness Valche walk wish young ladies
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Page 83 - To-morrow ! It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of Time, Unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society With those who own it. No, my Horatio ; 'Tis Fancy's child, and Folly is its father — Wrought of such stuff as dreams are, and as baseless As the fantastic visions of the evening.
Page 109 - That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, is. to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind* but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in^rder to give it any real value.
Page 109 - It overthrows all steadiness of principle, and produces that sinful conformity with the world which taints the whole character. In the present corrupted state of human manners, always to assent and to comply is the very worst maxim we can adopt.
Page 183 - God never accepts a good inclination, instead of a good action, where that action may be done ; nay, so much the contrary, that if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is thereby made so much the more criminal and inexcusable. A...
Page 107 - If to her share some female errors fall ' Look in her face and you'll forget them all.
Page 13 - I thought no more of her, but went on and wrote my preface. The impression returned, upon my encounter with her in the street; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand...
Page 184 - ... certainly; and the more pernicious, for that men are seldom convinced of it, till their conviction can do them no good. There cannot be a weightier or more important case of conscience for men to be resolved in, than to know certainly how far God accepts the will for the deed, and how far he does not: and withal, to be informed truly when men do really will a thing, and when they have really no power to do what they have willed. For surely, it cannot but be matter of very dreadful and terrifying...
Page 184 - For surely, it cannot but be matter of very dreadful and terrifying consideration to any one sober, and in his wits, to think seriously with himself, what horror and confusion must needs surprise that man, at the last and great day of account, who had led his whole life and governed all his actions by one rule, when God intends to judge him by another. To which God, the great searcher and judge of hearts, and rewarder of men according to their deeds, be rendered and ascribed, as is most due, all...