 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 226 páginas
...Lent, particularly the Holy Week, with a rigour very dangerous to his general health; but though he had left off wine (for religious motives, as I always...God by taking the rod of reproof out of His hands." And when we talked of convents, and the hardships suffered in them: "Remember always," said he, "that... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 páginas
...particularly the holy week, with a rigour very dangerous to his general health ; but though he had left off wine (for religious motives as I always believed,...God by taking the rod of reproof out of his hands." And when we talked of convents, and the hardships suffered in them — "Remember always (said he) that... | |
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Mr. Johnson, though in general a gross feeder, kept fast in Lent, particularly the holy week, with a rigour very dangerous to his general health; but though he had left off wine (for religious motives as I always believed, though he did not own it), yet... 
