 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...-<>:,'. have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of spirit, joined to her tendernrss, as never to have desired him to do a base thing for the saving of hi? life." He said, " There was a signal providence of God in giving him such a wife, where there was... | |
 | baroness Rachel Russell - 1809 - 542 pages
...bles• Burnet. sing she had been to him, and said — " What a misery it would " have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of " spirit, joined..." to do a base thing for the saving of his life." He said — " There was a signal providence of God in giving him such a " wife, where there was birth,... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell - 1809 - 536 pages
...bles• Burnet. sing sing she had been to him, and said — " What a misery it would " have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of " spirit, joined..." to do a base thing for the saving of his life." He said — " There was a signal providence of God in giving him such a " wife, where there was birth,... | |
 | 1809 - 612 pages
...blessing to him ; and observed, that he should have been miserable, if she had not possess, ed so great magnanimity of spirit joined to her tenderness, as never to have desired him to do a base thing to save his life." He saidt " There was a signal providence of God, in giving him such a wife, in whom... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 pages
...enlarged much on her merit : said she had been an inestimable blessing to him ; that she had never desired him to do a base thing for the saving of his life ; that there was a signal providence of God in giving him such a wife, in whom were united noble birth... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...then enlarged much on her merit: said she bad been an inestimable blessing to him ; that she had never desired him to do a base thing for the saving of his life ; that there was a signal providence of God in giving him such a wife, in whom were united noble birth... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...blessing to him ;" and observed, that " he should have been miserable, if she had not possessed so great magnanimity of spirit, joined to her tenderness, as never to have desired him to do a hase thing to save his life." He said, " There was a signal providence •f God, in giving him such... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...her, saying, how great a blessing she hod been to him. and what a misery it would have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of spirit, joined...tenderness, as never to have desired him to do a base thing to save his life. Whereas, what a week he should have passed, if she had been crying on him to turn... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...his heart •' so near failing, as when he spake of her. '' Sometimes I saw a tear in his eye, and " he would turn about and presently change *' the discourse."...still cry" ing on me to turn informer, and be a Lord *f Howard ; though he then repeated what he had " often before said, that he knew of nothing by " which... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Berry - 1819 - 268 pages
...offered him by King William. c 2 " her four or five times, and she kept her sorrow so within herself, " that she gave him no disturbance at their parting....week I should have passed, if she " had been still crying on me to turn informer, and be a Lord Howard ; " though he then repeated what he had often before... | |
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Now the bitterness of death is past," and ran out into a long discourse concerning her — how great a blessing she had been to him ; and said, what a misery it would have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of spirit, joined to her tenderness,... 
