A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the Year 1741 to 1770: To which are Added, Letters from Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between the Years 1763 and 1787; Published from the Original Manuscripts in the Posession of the Rev. Montagu Pennington, Том 3F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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Страница 205 - You will be so kindly solicitous about me, my dear Mrs. Vesey, when you see in the papers a confirmation of the reality of my apprehensions about my dear Miss Talbot, that I cannot forbear writing you some account of myself. I am tolerably well, and my spirits, though low, are very composed. With the deepest feeling of my own unspeakable loss of one of the dearest and most invaluable blessings of my life, I am to the highest degree thankful to the Divine goodness for removing her from the multiplied...
Страница 185 - I was surrounded, with near 1oo/. in my pocket. In this exigency I applied to one of the crowd for assistance, and while he was hesitating, another man, who saw my difficulty, very good-naturedly said to me, "Come, madam, I will do my best to get you along.
Страница 299 - I think a very useful lesson. The character of Burchell, as it now stands, is entirely out of nature, whether we suppose him to be guided by good principles or bad. If the author had strongly marked him as acting by no principles at all, every instance of his behaviour would have been natural ; for every...
Страница 207 - God for delivering her from her sufferings, and to implore his assistance to prepare me to follow her. Little, alas! infinitely too little, have I yet profited by the blessing of such an example. God grant that her memory, which I hope will ever survive in my heart, may produce a happier effect. " Adieu, my dear friend, God bless you, and V conduct us. both to that happy assembly, where the spirits of the just shall dread no future separation ! And may we both remember that awful truth, that we can...
Страница 206 - I went in ceremony, which. had it been proper, would have been too strong a trial for my spirits, but privately with two other of her intimate friends. I felt it would be a comfort to me, on that most solemn occasion, to thank Almighty God for delivering her from her sufferings, and to implore his assistance to prepare me .to follow her.
Страница 206 - God to remove her spotless soul from its mortal sufferings, to that heaven for which her whole life had been an uninterrupted preparation. Never surely was there a more perfect pattern of evangelical goodness, decorated by all the ornaments of a highly improved understanding, and recommended by a sweetness of temper, and an elegance and politeness of manners, of a peculiar and more engaging kind than in any other character I ever knew.
Страница 146 - It is worse than dying ; for die she must to all she has ever seen or known ; but then it is only dying out of one bad world into another just like it, and where she is to have cares and fears, and dangers and sorrows, that will all yet be new to her. May it please God to protect, and instruct, and comfort her, poor child as she is...
Страница 206 - I have endured for the last two or three months. " Two or three days before her death, she was seized with a sudden hoarseness and cough, which seemed the effect of a cold, and for which bleeding relieved her ; but there remained an oppression from phlegm which was extremely troublesome to her.
Страница 51 - ... in which you talk to me of a belle Hollandoise and a Chanoinesse angelique, for neither of whom do I care, and say no more of la Baronne than if no Such amiable being existed. I begin to suspect this is really the case, and that she is only un Stre d'imagination, wh6m you dreamt of on the inspiring brink of the Geronstere spring.
Страница 102 - One should not destroy an insect, one should not quarrel with a dog, without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.