The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 166Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1839 - English essays |
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Page 269 - That I can live never to see thee and my child more! — I cannot! I have desired God and disputed with my reason, but •nature and compassion hath the victory. That I can live to think how you are both left a spoil to my enemies, and that my name shall be a dishonour to my child — I cannot!
Page 256 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
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