| Thomas Durant - 1822 - Počet stránok 250
...with a sense of the divine presence and inspection. This suppk'ed him with a motive for 36 speaking truth in his intercourse with others as well as with...series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not — I never was — naturally of a temper to augur the worst; but the first grand moral delinquency,... | |
| Thomas Durant - 1823 - Počet stránok 338
...When he was about three years old, an aged female, at whose house he was staying for a day, inform> ed me that William had told a falsehood. As deception...series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not — I never was — naturally of a temper to augur the worst ; but the first grand moral delinquency,... | |
| 1823 - Počet stránok 602
...doubt on the subject ; but she stated such particulars as caused me to fear that be had trangressed. I was thunderstruck and almost distracted ; for the...hopes. This might, I thought, be the commencement of $ series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not — I never was — * naturally of a temper... | |
| John Todd - 1844 - Počet stránok 230
...next. >f his dear child, then « Jt three •ehe wa «* fit, /far 1 The child did not tell a lie. ed ; for the information seemed to blast my most cherished...thought, be the commencement of a series of evils forever ruinous to our peace. I am not sure that my agony, on hearing of his death, was much more intense... | |
| John Todd - 1859 - Počet stránok 330
...aged female, at whose house he was staying for a day, informed me that William had told a falsehood. I was thunderstruck, and almost distracted ; for the...series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not sure that my agony, on hearing of his death, was much more intense than that which I then endured,... | |
| John Todd - 1860 - Počet stránok 376
...aged female, at whose house he was staying for a day, informed me that William had told a falsehood. I was thunderstruck, and almost distracted ; for the...series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not sure that my agony, on hearing of his death, was much more intense than that which I then endured,... | |
| Home principles - 1876 - Počet stránok 204
...aged female, at whose house he was staying for a day, informed me that William had told a falsehood. I was thunderstruck and almost distracted ; for the...information seemed to blast my most cherished hopes. I am not, sure that my agony on hearing of his death was much more intense, than that which I then... | |
| Elsie Browning Michie - 2006 - Počet stránok 222
...declared one early nineteenth-century father, of his discovery that his 3-year-old son had told a lie, "for the information seemed to blast my most cherished hopes. This might, 1 thought, be the commencement of a series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. ... 1 am not sure... | |
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