William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Том 1Roberts Brothers, 1876 |
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... Miss Godwin , afterwards Mrs Sothren , " who out of her decent income , as it was considered , of £ 40 a year , paid £ 16 to my father as a stipend for lodging and board . " Miss God- win had a considerable amount of literary culture ...
... Miss Godwin , afterwards Mrs Sothren , " who out of her decent income , as it was considered , of £ 40 a year , paid £ 16 to my father as a stipend for lodging and board . " Miss God- win had a considerable amount of literary culture ...
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... much more indearing title than Miss G. but suppose ' tis polite , as I know your partiality for your Sister used to be great , and hope she has not done any- LETTER FROM MRS SOTHREN . 23 thing to abate it 22 WILLIAM GODWIN .
... much more indearing title than Miss G. but suppose ' tis polite , as I know your partiality for your Sister used to be great , and hope she has not done any- LETTER FROM MRS SOTHREN . 23 thing to abate it 22 WILLIAM GODWIN .
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... Miss Gay ; she is a great favourite of mine , I think her an amiable young lady . Yours affectionately , HAN . SOTHREN . " P.S. - Hope you will not take it ill what I have wrote , if you can read it . My pens and ink are so bad I am ...
... Miss Gay ; she is a great favourite of mine , I think her an amiable young lady . Yours affectionately , HAN . SOTHREN . " P.S. - Hope you will not take it ill what I have wrote , if you can read it . My pens and ink are so bad I am ...
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... Miss Gay is his only child . Mr Gay is very much of a gentleman , though one whom you would say savours too much of Methodism . . . . I have only mentioned you as my dearest brother , and added that I wished she were acquainted with you ...
... Miss Gay is his only child . Mr Gay is very much of a gentleman , though one whom you would say savours too much of Methodism . . . . I have only mentioned you as my dearest brother , and added that I wished she were acquainted with you ...
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... Miss Gay . You are not struck with her , but do not think it impossible for you to like her well enough to make certain proposals after a time : let me know the results of your next Interview . I wish to know your sentiments . If you do ...
... Miss Gay . You are not struck with her , but do not think it impossible for you to like her well enough to make certain proposals after a time : let me know the results of your next Interview . I wish to know your sentiments . If you do ...
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Сторінка 233 - The partiality we conceived for each other was in that mode which I have always considered as the purest and most refined style of love. It grew with equal advances in the mind of each. It would have been impossible for the most minute observer to have said who was before and who was after.
Сторінка 111 - To whom does any article of property, suppose a loaf of bread, justly belong? To him who most wants it, or to whom the possession of it will be most beneficial. Here are six men famished with hunger, and the loaf is, absolutely considered, capable of satisfying the cravings of them all. Who is it that has a reasonable claim to benefit by the qualities with which the loaf is endowed?
Сторінка 108 - Suppose the valet had been my brother, my father or my benefactor. This would not alter the truth of the proposition. The life of Fenelon would still be more valuable than that of the valet; and justice, pure, unadulterated justice, would still have preferred that which was most valuable. Justice would have taught me to save the life of Fenelon at the expense of the other. What magic is there in the pronoun "my...
Сторінка 330 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Сторінка 201 - Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
Сторінка 80 - a three guinea book could never do much harm among those who had not three shillings to spare.
Сторінка 221 - Wollstonecraft already was established in Philadelphia. Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., Secretary of the Society of United Irishmen, was prosecuted January 29, 1794, for having published a seditious libel. After a trial at Bar, in which he was defended by Curran, he was found guilty, was sentenced to pay a fine of £500, to be imprisoned for two years, and at the end of this time to give security for his good behaviour for seven years, himself in £2000 and two sureties in £1000 each.
Сторінка 233 - It grew with equal advances in the mind of each. It would have been impossible for the most minute observer to have said who was before and who was after. One sex did not take the priority which long-established custom has awarded it, nor the other overstep that delicacy which is so severely imposed.