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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... 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 his ...
... 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 his ...
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... Ellangowan , had sunk into subordinate accomplices . Their most fatal exhibitions in this capacity took place in the seven teenth century , when the foul fiend pos- sessed them with a spirit of contradiction which uniformly involved ...
... Ellangowan , had sunk into subordinate accomplices . Their most fatal exhibitions in this capacity took place in the seven teenth century , when the foul fiend pos- sessed them with a spirit of contradiction which uniformly involved ...
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... 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 sacred majesty ...
... 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 sacred majesty ...
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... Ellangowan . He turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mo- ther's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and ...
... Ellangowan . He turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mo- ther's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk - maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and ...
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... Ellangowan to inter- fere in politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Kenmore in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
... Ellangowan to inter- fere in politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Kenmore in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
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