Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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... lived in those times , and , perhaps , had good authority for what they wrote . But do those relations give any of the beautiful ideas of things formed in this account ? Have they one half of the circumstances and incidents of the ...
... lived in those times , and , perhaps , had good authority for what they wrote . But do those relations give any of the beautiful ideas of things formed in this account ? Have they one half of the circumstances and incidents of the ...
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... lived about six miles from the town of High - Excol ; and my mother being at on some particular occasion , was surprised there at a friend's house , and brought me very safe into the world . I was my father's second son , and therefore ...
... lived about six miles from the town of High - Excol ; and my mother being at on some particular occasion , was surprised there at a friend's house , and brought me very safe into the world . I was my father's second son , and therefore ...
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... lived thus , in all the pleasures ' twas possible for me to enjoy , for about a year more ; when going out one morning with my father to hunt a stag , and having had a very hard chase , and gotten a great way off from home , we had ...
... lived thus , in all the pleasures ' twas possible for me to enjoy , for about a year more ; when going out one morning with my father to hunt a stag , and having had a very hard chase , and gotten a great way off from home , we had ...
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... lived to see him again , I would acknowledge it . This accident of our horse was , as we afterwards found , of some use to us . We had left our two servants behind us at Calais to bring our baggage after us , by reason of some dispute ...
... lived to see him again , I would acknowledge it . This accident of our horse was , as we afterwards found , of some use to us . We had left our two servants behind us at Calais to bring our baggage after us , by reason of some dispute ...
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... lived a few years longer . We stayed in Paris about three weeks , as well to see the court , and what rarities the place afforded , as by an occasion which had like to have put a short period to our ramble . Walking one morning before ...
... lived a few years longer . We stayed in Paris about three weeks , as well to see the court , and what rarities the place afforded , as by an occasion which had like to have put a short period to our ramble . Walking one morning before ...
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