Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794. Excerpt: ... upon my prudence. I have since learnt what an impression this manner of respectfully eluding his advice, made upon his mind, and what bitter resentment he nourished at the bottom of his heart. The moment of my becoming a father drew nigh, and this moment, which I looked for with an impatient delight, my heart had hitherto been a stranger to; this day, which promised to be the happiest I had ever yet experienced, turned out the most fatal. It deprived me both of the mother and the child. This stroke plunged me into an abyss of sorrow. I will not tell you how heart-breaking it was; it was that kind of grief that can only be expressed by the cries it utters. None but those who experience such sorrows can imagine what they are. It was still in the height of my affliction, when my wife's father informed me by his notary, accompanied with a few words of sorrow and condolence, that the writings were drawn up to transfer back into his hands the fortune 1 had received from him. Full of indignation at his haste I replied that I was quite prepared; and on the morrow the fortune was returned. But the jewels that I had given his daughter, and the other ar tides of value for her own particular use, became also his spoils. He had a legal right to them. I represented the inhumanity of requiring me, at the end of eighteen months marriage, to submit to so severe a law; but he availed himself of his right with all the impatience and avidity of a greedy claimant. I submitted, and this severe exaction made some noise in the world. Then did the envy my happiness had excited, hasten to punish me for my short-lived felicity, and under the disguise of pity, took care to divulge my ruin, which it seemed to deplore. My friends were less zealous to serve me, than were my enemies t...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794. Excerpt: ... upon my prudence. I have since learnt what an impression this manner of respectfully eluding his advice, made upon his mind, and what bitter resentment he nourished at the bottom of his heart. The moment of my becoming a father drew nigh, and this moment, which I looked for with an impatient delight, my heart had hitherto been a stranger to; this day, which promised to be the happiest I had ever yet experienced, turned out the most fatal. It deprived me both of the mother and the child. This stroke plunged me into an abyss of sorrow. I will not tell you how heart-breaking it was; it was that kind of grief that can only be expressed by the cries it utters. None but those who experience such sorrows can imagine what they are. It was still in the height of my affliction, when my wife's father informed me by his notary, accompanied with a few words of sorrow and condolence, that the writings were drawn up to transfer back into his hands the fortune 1 had received from him. Full of indignation at his haste I replied that I was quite prepared; and on the morrow the fortune was returned. But the jewels that I had given his daughter, and the other ar tides of value for her own particular use, became also his spoils. He had a legal right to them. I represented the inhumanity of requiring me, at the end of eighteen months marriage, to submit to so severe a law; but he availed himself of his right with all the impatience and avidity of a greedy claimant. I submitted, and this severe exaction made some noise in the world. Then did the envy my happiness had excited, hasten to punish me for my short-lived felicity, and under the disguise of pity, took care to divulge my ruin, which it seemed to deplore. My friends were less zealous to serve me, than were my enemies t...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

2012

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First published

2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

58

ISBN-13

978-1-150-56115-3

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9781150561153

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1-150-56115-7



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