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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This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused
, perhaps , than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects
for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own ...
This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused
, perhaps , than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects
for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own ...
Page 79
... to Jerusalem and Jericho , wi ? a ' their clan at their heels - - they had better
have gaen to Jamaica , like Sir Thomas Kittlecourt ' s uncle - and how they
brought home reliques , like those that catholics have , and a flag that ' s up
yonder in the ...
... to Jerusalem and Jericho , wi ? a ' their clan at their heels - - they had better
have gaen to Jamaica , like Sir Thomas Kittlecourt ' s uncle - and how they
brought home reliques , like those that catholics have , and a flag that ' s up
yonder in the ...
Page 269
It might have been better for us all at this day ! " THIRD EXTRACT . “ You ask me
why I do not make known to my father that Brown yet lives , at least that he
survived the wound he received in that unhappy duel ; and had written to my
mother ...
It might have been better for us all at this day ! " THIRD EXTRACT . “ You ask me
why I do not make known to my father that Brown yet lives , at least that he
survived the wound he received in that unhappy duel ; and had written to my
mother ...
Page 296
The apparent simplicity with which I asked this question got the better of his
gravity . • Come , Julia , ' he said , you are a sad girl , but I gain nothing by
scolding you — of these two strangers , the young lady is one whom you cannot
fail , I think ...
The apparent simplicity with which I asked this question got the better of his
gravity . • Come , Julia , ' he said , you are a sad girl , but I gain nothing by
scolding you — of these two strangers , the young lady is one whom you cannot
fail , I think ...
Page 326
... who had used his power as a commanding officer to deprive him of the
preferment due to his behaviour , and who had forced upon him a personal
quarrel ' without any better reason than his atten . tions to a pretty young woman ,
agreeable ...
... who had used his power as a commanding officer to deprive him of the
preferment due to his behaviour , and who had forced upon him a personal
quarrel ' without any better reason than his atten . tions to a pretty young woman ,
agreeable ...
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| Title | Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1 Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Contributors | James Ballantyne and Co, Archibald Constable & Co, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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