Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - 358 pages |
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... con- sumere nati ; but the love of field - sports in- dicates a certain activity of mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if he ever pos- 3 sessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of countenance GUY MANNERING . 15 CHAPTER II. ...
... con- sumere nati ; but the love of field - sports in- dicates a certain activity of mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if he ever pos- 3 sessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of countenance GUY MANNERING . 15 CHAPTER II. ...
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... Bertram , of Ellangowan , suc ceeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that ...
... Bertram , of Ellangowan , suc ceeded to a long pedigree and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that ...
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... Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeat- ed , beheaded , and hanged , as became a fa mily of importance , for many centuries . But they had gradually lost ground in the world , and , from being themselves the heads ...
... Bertram . They had made war , raised rebellions , been defeat- ed , beheaded , and hanged , as became a fa mily of importance , for many centuries . But they had gradually lost ground in the world , and , from being themselves the heads ...
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... Bertram of Ellangowan , who flou- rished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scot- tish Baronage , ( see the title Ellangowan , ) 66 a steady loyalist , and full of zeal for the cause of his ...
... Bertram of Ellangowan , who flou- rished tempore Caroli primi , was , says my authority , Sir Robert Douglas , in his Scot- tish Baronage , ( see the title Ellangowan , ) 66 a steady loyalist , and full of zeal for the cause of his ...
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... Bertram was again suspected by government , apprehended , sent to Dunnotar Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from a subterranean ha- bitation , called the Whig's Vault , in which he ...
... Bertram was again suspected by government , apprehended , sent to Dunnotar Castle , on the coast of the Mearns , and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from a subterranean ha- bitation , called the Whig's Vault , in which he ...
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