Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... HISTORY OF THE LIFE , ETC. I was born , as my friends told me , at the city of Poictiers , ir the province or county of Poictou , in France , from whence I was brought to England by my parents , who fled for their religion about the ...
... HISTORY OF THE LIFE , ETC. I was born , as my friends told me , at the city of Poictiers , ir the province or county of Poictou , in France , from whence I was brought to England by my parents , who fled for their religion about the ...
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... history of the married part of my life , you must allow me to give as impartial an account of my husband as I have done of myself . He was a jolly , handsome fellow as any woman need wish for a companion ; tall and well made ; rather a ...
... history of the married part of my life , you must allow me to give as impartial an account of my husband as I have done of myself . He was a jolly , handsome fellow as any woman need wish for a companion ; tall and well made ; rather a ...
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... history of my actings upon the stage of life , that little time I had been in the world , how much more severe would those reproaches have been upon himself : but I shall come to this again . I lived in this gay sort of retirement ...
... history of my actings upon the stage of life , that little time I had been in the world , how much more severe would those reproaches have been upon himself : but I shall come to this again . I lived in this gay sort of retirement ...
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... history of our journey and stay abroad , which would almost fill up a volume of itself , I say , we spent all that evening in cheerful consultations about the manner of our travelling , the equi- page and figure he should go in , and in ...
... history of our journey and stay abroad , which would almost fill up a volume of itself , I say , we spent all that evening in cheerful consultations about the manner of our travelling , the equi- page and figure he should go in , and in ...
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... history of everything he showed me . What valuable pains were here thrown away upon one who he was sure , at last , to abandon with regret ! How below himself did a man of quality and of a thousand accomplishments behave in all this ...
... history of everything he showed me . What valuable pains were here thrown away upon one who he was sure , at last , to abandon with regret ! How below himself did a man of quality and of a thousand accomplishments behave in all this ...
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