Domestic Memoirs of a Christian Family Resident in the County of Cumberland: With Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery of the British LakesJ. Hatchard and Son, 1848 - 416 pages |
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... daughter Laura , then ten years of age , their two sons , and a younger daughter , found themselves seated before a cheerful fire in their picturesque cottage on the delightful banks of Derwentwater . Nothing could exceed the splendid ...
... daughter Laura , then ten years of age , their two sons , and a younger daughter , found themselves seated before a cheerful fire in their picturesque cottage on the delightful banks of Derwentwater . Nothing could exceed the splendid ...
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... daughter having placed a copy of the sacred volume before each of them , and having rung the bell , two neatly - attired and modest - looking female servants , with the footman , entered the apartment and took their seats near the table ...
... daughter having placed a copy of the sacred volume before each of them , and having rung the bell , two neatly - attired and modest - looking female servants , with the footman , entered the apartment and took their seats near the table ...
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... daughters , houses and lands , flocks and herds , health of body , and peace of mind — all swept away in one overwhelming desolation . Nay , more than this , " he would say , —while regarding his wife with the tenderest affection ...
... daughters , houses and lands , flocks and herds , health of body , and peace of mind — all swept away in one overwhelming desolation . Nay , more than this , " he would say , —while regarding his wife with the tenderest affection ...
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... daughters , in a great measure , to the literary care of his talented wife , whose proficiency in various branches of useful and polite knowledge was quite competent to so responsible a charge . With regard to the boys , they were ...
... daughters , in a great measure , to the literary care of his talented wife , whose proficiency in various branches of useful and polite knowledge was quite competent to so responsible a charge . With regard to the boys , they were ...
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... daughters by the establishment of a respectable seminary for young ladies , were enabled to support themselves with credit ... daughter . His own fortune was then ample and increasing , and rendered it quite unnecessary , as a matter of ...
... daughters by the establishment of a respectable seminary for young ladies , were enabled to support themselves with credit ... daughter . His own fortune was then ample and increasing , and rendered it quite unnecessary , as a matter of ...
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