Such a leader there would have been, if my father had been in Parliament.
Mitford's Greece I read continually; my father had put me on my guard against the Tory prejudices of this writer, and his perversions of facts for the whitewashing of despots, and blackening of popular institutions.
Among these may be mentioned Strutt, afterwards Lord Belper, and the present Lord Romilly, with whose eminent father, Sir Samuel, my father had of old been on terms of friendship.
And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel, 6:8.
And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had made, and served them.
Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the treasures of the house of God.
At twenty-one I had a right to my mother's fortune, and whatever my father had left me.
My father had a little, but I don't believe any other of the old Forsytes ever had a scrap.
Jon's father had married the woman her father had wanted to marry, had cheated him out of her, perhaps.
My father had a long white beard, but I loved him; he was sixty years old, but to me he was handsomer than all the fine youths I saw.
You do not know that every day of those fourteen years I renewed the vow of vengeance which I had made the first day; and yet I was not aware that you had married Fernand, my calumniator, and that my father had died of hunger!
I came back here to Grenoble with every intention of devoting the best efforts of my life in aiding to build up the community, as my father had done.
To make a long story short, I perceived that what my father had tried to teach me, in his own way, had some reason in it.
But mine honest neighbour, suppose that Mr. Badman's father had done as you say, and by so doing had driven his son to ill courses, what had he bettered either himself or his son in so doing?
Now, the cause of my purchasing of it was this: Mansoul had trespassed against my Father; now my Father had said, that in the day that they broke his law they should die.
But, mother, if my father had been a good man, I don't believe you would hare carried me away from him!
My father had a right to take the mare from me, and at his death she came into your possession.
I wish my father had taught me as I am teaching you!
A curious influence my father had over me, and curious were the relations existing between us.
I begged for them, and wept, and told him how my mother was sick and my father had gone 'way uptown to get the grapes for her because there were none such to be had in our neighborhood.
But I do know for an incontestable fact that during the night, just as my father had prophesied, our rowboat was blown loose by the northeast gale, and has not been seen from that day to this.
The consequence was the immediate ratification of the marriage engagement to which my father had so steadily refused his consent.
My father had died on the very day when I sailed for my return voyage to England.
My father had refused to pain them by going into particulars, not only at the time of his brother's disappearance, but afterward, whenever the subject was mentioned.
My father had been an old school and college friend of Mr. Monkton, and accident had brought them so much together in later life that their continued intimacy at Wincot was quite intelligible.
My father had professed to pass himself off as Panky, for he had rather gathered that Hanky was the better known man of the two.
There was so much tangled growth still unburnt wherever there was room for it to grow, and so much swamp, that my father had to keep almost entirely to the river-bed--and here there was a good deal of quicksand.
At the Cardinal's death my father had returned to the Court and was in greater favour than ever.
Luxembourg, who replied with all the politeness and gallantry possible, that I could not do less than follow an example my father had set me.
My father had an uncle who commanded in one of these towns, La Capelle, and who had several times asked for ammunition and stores without success.
Father had gone to America and had saved enough money to send for the family.
I was talking to the fellow who sat beside me, and I told him what my father had written me.
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