Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... mind which shakes off the corrosions of care by its own mere activity , as the rotatory mill- wheel throws from its surface those cankering substances , which would soon gnaw into its heart were it to remain stationary and in stag- nant ...
... mind which shakes off the corrosions of care by its own mere activity , as the rotatory mill- wheel throws from its surface those cankering substances , which would soon gnaw into its heart were it to remain stationary and in stag- nant ...
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... mind was absolutely insanified with a horror of popery and popish plots , was sufficient to beget all sort of absurd and injurious ru- mours . Hales Court , according to the notion of the besotted bumpkins in its neighbourhood , was a ...
... mind was absolutely insanified with a horror of popery and popish plots , was sufficient to beget all sort of absurd and injurious ru- mours . Hales Court , according to the notion of the besotted bumpkins in its neighbourhood , was a ...
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... mind , stigmatizing her neighbours with the opprobious terms which then formed the current vocabulary of every staunch Protes- tant . These sentiments which were equally ungenerous and unjust , whether applied to the Sheltons in ...
... mind , stigmatizing her neighbours with the opprobious terms which then formed the current vocabulary of every staunch Protes- tant . These sentiments which were equally ungenerous and unjust , whether applied to the Sheltons in ...
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... less difference in their souls than in their frames , Edith being the creature of feeling and impulse , whose mind was so perilously poised that every sudden oscillation threatened to throw it from its balance ; WALTER COLYTON . 15.
... less difference in their souls than in their frames , Edith being the creature of feeling and impulse , whose mind was so perilously poised that every sudden oscillation threatened to throw it from its balance ; WALTER COLYTON . 15.
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... mind him Paul , stick your knees in , keep well back in the saddle . That's it ! Mort de ma vie ! I wish Gibbons the sculptor were here to take model of you for an Eques- trian statue . Ha ! did Dumpling think to throw you by that fling ...
... mind him Paul , stick your knees in , keep well back in the saddle . That's it ! Mort de ma vie ! I wish Gibbons the sculptor were here to take model of you for an Eques- trian statue . Ha ! did Dumpling think to throw you by that fling ...
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