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I asked, bewildered at this apparent accusation of unkindness. "Leave me to myself. Send me from your door. Not oppress me with this ridiculous burthensome care and attention, all out of the family pride you still keep up in the Trevors!" she sneered. "No, Hester. Sister Hester, will you not believe it is love?"
According to the honourable Member for Sheffield, India is ill governed; and the whole fault is with the Company. Innumerable accusations, great and small, are brought by him against the Directors. They are fond of war: they are fond of dominion: the taxation is burthensome: the laws are undigested: the roads are rough: the post goes on foot: and for everything the Company is answerable.
He had no occasion to complain of too burthensome an employment; for my mother very judiciously considered that I was not likely to grow politer in his company, and suffered me not to pass any more time in his apartment, than my lesson required. When I was summoned to my task, she enjoined me not to get any of my tutor's ways, who was seldom mentioned before me but for practices to be avoided.
Meanwhile Colonel Washington was in Virginia running his plantations to the best of his ability and with his mind made up. For, Sir, what is it we are contending against? Is it against paying the duty of three pence per pound on tea because burthensome?
It must be remembered, that the Government expended capital for years before any return was obtained; and if they now derive a large revenue, it is in a way which is far less burthensome, and far more beneficial to the people, than any tax that could be levied.
Pinckney considered the fisheries, and the western frontier, as more burthensome to the United States than the slaves. He thought this could be demonstrated, if the occasion were a proper one. Mr. Wilson thought the motion premature. An agreement to the clause would be no bar to the object of it.
What ravages would not these sacred haranguers cause, if they should conspire, as they have so often done, to disturb the tranquillity of a state! To most nations, nothing is more burthensome and ruinous than the worship of their gods.
Having resolved to conform to an assiduity which was necessary, I immediately and voluntarily entered upon it, and for the first year at least, found it less burthensome than I could have expected.
Parents may not be consenting to their moral relation; but consenting or not, they are bound to a long train of burthensome duties towards those with whom they have never made a convention of any sort.
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. The last method which I proposed in my Saturday's paper, for filing up those empty spaces of life which are so tedious and burthensome to idle people, is the employing ourselves in the pursuit of knowledge. I remember Mr.
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