His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.