Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq. [pseud.]Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1861 - 432 pages |
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... benevolence , as a preacher who should prepare a discourse though he knew he should have but a single auditor for his congregation , or a writer who should write a book with little hope of more than a solitary reader . " Some traces of ...
... benevolence , as a preacher who should prepare a discourse though he knew he should have but a single auditor for his congregation , or a writer who should write a book with little hope of more than a solitary reader . " Some traces of ...
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... benevolent friend , the practitioner aforesaid , bestowed all his skill gratis . He had , on the like charitable terms , obtained the opinion of a physician , because he thought it would be an additional satisfaction to his poor patient ...
... benevolent friend , the practitioner aforesaid , bestowed all his skill gratis . He had , on the like charitable terms , obtained the opinion of a physician , because he thought it would be an additional satisfaction to his poor patient ...
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... benevolence , and , in a word , all healthful emotions ! The change from youth , indeed , is per- ceptible enough , but it is all legitimate - the soft chisellings of Time alone ; none of the rents , scars , and deep furrows which ...
... benevolence , and , in a word , all healthful emotions ! The change from youth , indeed , is per- ceptible enough , but it is all legitimate - the soft chisellings of Time alone ; none of the rents , scars , and deep furrows which ...
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... benevolent and intelligent friend Dr. S. R— , a doctor of physic , but who has retired from practice , except as an amateur , if I may be allowed so odd an ex- pression . Yet is it very proper ; like Johnson's soapboiler , who wearied ...
... benevolent and intelligent friend Dr. S. R— , a doctor of physic , but who has retired from practice , except as an amateur , if I may be allowed so odd an ex- pression . Yet is it very proper ; like Johnson's soapboiler , who wearied ...
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... benevolent hope of doing some good has no part , or even a little , in this promptness to resume his quondam profession . But I am confi- dent that , even without any such stimulus , the effect of long habit , and the gratification of ...
... benevolent hope of doing some good has no part , or even a little , in this promptness to resume his quondam profession . But I am confi- dent that , even without any such stimulus , the effect of long habit , and the gratification of ...
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