When a reverse of fortune drove us from Piercefield, my daughter had just entered her seventeenth year, an age at which she might have been supposed to have lamented deeply many consequent privations. ... I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur... Fragments, in Prose and Verse - Página 29por Elizabeth Smith, Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1809 - 242 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1809 - 402 páginas
...coarersdliun. Through all the inUfortuuei which marked the period of which I am now speaking, I can with truth say of Mrs. Smith what she says of her...were other circumstances attending this sad event « bich such a heart ai she had must deeply feel ; and a letter which is uow before me speaks the language... | |
| Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - 1809 - 494 páginas
...misfortunes which marked the period of which. I am now speaking, I can with truth say of Mrs. S— , what she says of her beloved daughter, that I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur hav• ing escaped her, on account of the loss of fortune; but there were other circumstances attending... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1810 - 456 páginas
...undertake a charge which no pecuniary considerations could induce you to accept a few months before. I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped her, or the least expression of regret at what she had lost. On the contrary, she always appeared contented;... | |
| J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 páginas
...year, an age at which she might have been supposed to have lamented deeply many consequent privations. I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped her; or the least expression of regret at what she had lost: on, the contrary, she always appeared contented... | |
| American Lady - 1833 - 248 páginas
...which marked the period of which I am now speaking, I can with truth say of Mrs. Smith, what she did of her beloved daughter, that I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped heron account of the loss of fortune.' " Mrs. Smith, in writing to a friend, thus speaks of Elizabeth's... | |
| Margaret Coxe - 1839 - 364 páginas
...the firmness of mind with which she endured a severe and unexpected change of fortune, she remarks : "I do not recollect a .single instance of a murmur having escaped her, or the least expression of regret at what she had lost; on the contrary she always appeared contented."... | |
| Mary Milner - 1846 - 808 páginas
...in England, surrounded by all the luxuries and elegances of affluence, and I can with truth declare that I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped her lips." A similar testimony is bome by her mother, who about the same time thus wrote : " When a reverse... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 458 páginas
...an age at which she might have been supposed to have lamented deeply many consequent privations. ... I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped her, or the least expression of regret at what she had lost; on the contrary, she always appeared contented... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 338 páginas
...the period of which I am speaking, I can with truth say of Mrs. Smith, what she says of her heloved daughter — that I do not recollect a single instance...having escaped her on account of the loss of fortune." Miss Smith, indeed, bore the trial with much patience. Not only did she not murmur, but she was cheerful... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1869 - 320 páginas
...year, an age at which she might have been supposed to have lamented deeply many consequent privations. I do not recollect a single instance of a murmur having escaped her, or the least expression of regret at what she had lost ; on the contrary, she always appeared contented... | |
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