Themes -- Duty
Duty: both one's sense of obligation to one's fellow beings and one's sense of responsibility for oneself.
Letter 4.4
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("Daemon")
1.1.1
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("My father loved Beaufort")
1.1.1
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("Public business")
1.1.3
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("His destined successor")
1.1.3
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("Something better -- their child") [1831 only]
1.1.4
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("Mine -- mine to protect, love, and cherish") [1831 only]
1.1.6
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("The moral relations of things") [1831 only]
1.2.2
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("Duties")
1.2.2
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("Duties")
1.3.1
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("Duty")
1.3.7
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("Your other duties are equally neglected")
1.7.1
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("It was to be decided")
1.7.6
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("My father wished her not to go")
2.1.1
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("A duty")
2.2.4
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("My creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature")
2.2.4
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("Your duty")
2.2.7
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("The duties of a creator towards his creature")
2.6.1
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("His son was bred in the service of his country")
2.6.2
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("He made a solmen vow ... means")
2.9.3
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("Wantonness of power")
3.4.11
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("My selfish despair") [1831 only]
3.5.8
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("A part of the inheritance of Elizabeth") [1831 only]
Walton 7
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("Smooth and placid as a southern sea")
Walton 8
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("Honour")
Walton 10
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("This was my duty")
Walton 11
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("The well balancing of what you may esteem your duties")
Walton 12
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("What were my duties with regard to this destroyer")
Walton 13
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("The voice of conscience")
