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Then, to see how like a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants!
Be pleased to take a sketch of my figure, as follows.
I stood like one
thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Then, to see how like a king
I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants! But now I come to a new scene
of my life.
It is impossible to express the comfort this gave me.
But I did not
then know what I afterwards learned, that hunger will tame a lion.
How strange
a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! Be pleased to take a sketch of
my figure, as follows.
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of
man! Oh, what ridiculous resolutions men take when possessed with fear! This
was acting with some prudence, and I went to work with courage. Oh, what
ridiculous resolutions men take when possessed with fear! Then, to see how like
a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants!
In this kind of dress
I went my new journey, and was out five or six days.
Then, to see how like a
king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my servants! It is impossible to
express the comfort this gave me. What marks were there of any other
footstep?
This was acting with some prudence, and I went to work with courage.
In answer, I thankfully laid down the book, and was no more sad, at least on
that occasion. Poll, as if he had been my favourite, was the only person
permitted to talk to me. It is impossible to express the comfort this gave me.
In this kind of dress I went my new journey, and was out five or six days. But
I did not then know what I afterwards learned, that hunger will tame a lion. In
this kind of dress I went my new journey, and was out five or six days.
In
answer, I thankfully laid down the book, and was no more sad, at least on that
occasion.
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!
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