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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Page 49
... carried a casket of jewels about him , and that he always wore a diamond ring on his finger worth a hundred pistoles , which report had magnified to five hundred ; and that if he had been going to any other place , it would have been ...
... carried a casket of jewels about him , and that he always wore a diamond ring on his finger worth a hundred pistoles , which report had magnified to five hundred ; and that if he had been going to any other place , it would have been ...
Page 64
... carried up so high . The prince knew no bounds to his munificence ; he could give me nothing either for my wearing , or using , or eating , or drinking , more than he had done from the beginning . His presents were after that in gold ...
... carried up so high . The prince knew no bounds to his munificence ; he could give me nothing either for my wearing , or using , or eating , or drinking , more than he had done from the beginning . His presents were after that in gold ...
Page 67
... carried him the news that I was delivered , and had brought him a charming boy . He gave her ten pistoles for her news , stayed till they had adjusted things about me , and then came into the room again , cheered me and spoke kindly to ...
... carried him the news that I was delivered , and had brought him a charming boy . He gave her ten pistoles for her news , stayed till they had adjusted things about me , and then came into the room again , cheered me and spoke kindly to ...
Page 69
... basis of their acquired merit ; and upon this he began to reckon up to me some of the greatest families in France and in England also . This carried off our discourse for a time ; but REVOLTING IDEAS OF THE PENALTY OF CRIME. ...
... basis of their acquired merit ; and upon this he began to reckon up to me some of the greatest families in France and in England also . This carried off our discourse for a time ; but REVOLTING IDEAS OF THE PENALTY OF CRIME. ...
Page 70
... carried off our discourse for a time ; but I went farther with him once , removing the discourse from the part attend- ing our children to the reproach which those children would be apt to throw upon us , their originals ; and , when ...
... carried off our discourse for a time ; but I went farther with him once , removing the discourse from the part attend- ing our children to the reproach which those children would be apt to throw upon us , their originals ; and , when ...
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