1 Perhaps it is a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 2 I have bethought me of all that gracious and compassionate history.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 3 It was the first time I had heard my aunt refer to her past history.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 4 We will not,' said Miss Lavinia, 'enter on the past history of this matter.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 5 It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.
6 The reader now understands, as well as I do, what I was when I came to that point of my youthful history to which I am now coming again.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 7 I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result.
8 Little Mr. Chillip the Doctor, to whose good offices I was indebted in the very first chapter of this history, sat reading a newspaper in the shadow of an opposite corner.
9 The thought passed through my mind that in the face of my companion, as he looked upon her without speech or motion, I might have read his niece's history, if I had known nothing of it.
10 Besides these, there were sundry immense manuscript Books of Evidence taken on affidavit, strongly bound, and tied together in massive sets, a set to each cause, as if every cause were a history in ten or twenty volumes.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 11 Mr. Spenlow did not appear to know what the connexion between Mr. Murdstone and myself was; which I was glad of, for I could not bear to acknowledge him, even in my own breast, remembering what I did of the history of my poor mother.
12 To this, I added the suggestion, that I should give some explanation of his character and history to Mr. Peggotty, who I knew could be relied on; and that to Mr. Peggotty should be quietly entrusted the discretion of advancing another hundred.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS