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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... nature , for times seem to look as if this part of Europe would find us work enough . My father spake then relating to the quarrel likely to happen between the king of England and the Spaniard ( upon the breach of the match between the ...
... nature , for times seem to look as if this part of Europe would find us work enough . My father spake then relating to the quarrel likely to happen between the king of England and the Spaniard ( upon the breach of the match between the ...
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... nature in sundry other parts of France , and the very army began to murmur , though not to mutiny , for want of provisions . This sedition at Lyons was not quite over when we left the place , for , finding the city all in a broil , we ...
... nature in sundry other parts of France , and the very army began to murmur , though not to mutiny , for want of provisions . This sedition at Lyons was not quite over when we left the place , for , finding the city all in a broil , we ...
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... nature and common manners ; but when wickedness presented itself full - grown , in its grossest freedoms and liberties , it quite took away all the gust of vice that the devil had furnished me with , and in this I cannot but relate one ...
... nature and common manners ; but when wickedness presented itself full - grown , in its grossest freedoms and liberties , it quite took away all the gust of vice that the devil had furnished me with , and in this I cannot but relate one ...
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... nature , being surrounded with the imperial forces , who by their two generals Wallestein and Tilly , kept them in continual subjection and terror . This dilemma had like to have stifled the thoughts of the union as a thing ...
... nature , being surrounded with the imperial forces , who by their two generals Wallestein and Tilly , kept them in continual subjection and terror . This dilemma had like to have stifled the thoughts of the union as a thing ...
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... natural talent , but he never distributed his favours but where he thought himself both loved and faithfully served ; and when he was so , even the single actions of his private soldiers he would take parti- cular notice of himself ...
... natural talent , but he never distributed his favours but where he thought himself both loved and faithfully served ; and when he was so , even the single actions of his private soldiers he would take parti- cular notice of himself ...
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