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Short Stories - Volume II: Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months, A Flight, Full Report of the First Meeting of the

Short Stories - Volume II: Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months, A Flight, Full Report of the First Meeting of the

Dickens, Charles

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ISBN10: 3640245970
ISBN13: 9783640245970
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Jan 19 2009
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months MY CHILD, To recount with what trouble I have brought you up--with what an anxious eye I have regarded your progress, --how late and how often I have sat up at night working for you, --and how many thousand letters I have received from, and written to your various relations and friends, many of whom have been of a querulous and irritable turn, --to dwell on the anxiety and tenderness with which I have (as far as I possessed the power) inspected and chosen your food; rejecting the indigestible and heavy matter which some injudicious but well-meaning old ladies would have had you swallow, and retaining only those light and pleasant articles which I deemed calculated to keep you free from all gross humours, and to render you an agreeable child, and one who might be popular with society in general, --to dilate on the steadiness with which I have prevented your annoying any company by talking politics--always assuring you that you would thank me for it yourself some day when you grew older, --to expatiate, in short, upon my own assiduity as a parent, is beside my present purpose, though I cannot but contemplate your fair appearance--your robust health, and unimpeded circulation (which I take to be the great secret of your good looks) without the liveliest satisfaction and delight. [...] *** A Flight WHEN Don Diego de - I forget his name - the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so many francs for ladies, so many more for gentlemen - when Don Diego, by permission of Deputy Chaff-wax and his noble band, shall have taken out a Patent for the Queen's dominions, and shall have opened a commodious Warehouse in an airy situation; and when all persons of any gentility will keep at least a pair of wings, and be seen skimming about in every direction; I shall take a flig

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