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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Page 10
... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drums hourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I darena for my life open the door to ony of your gang- there - out sort o ' bodies . " - " But ...
... give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no - I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drums hourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I darena for my life open the door to ony of your gang- there - out sort o ' bodies . " - " But ...
Page 16
... give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw , when he had occasion to ride ...
... give the reader some insight into his state and conversation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw , when he had occasion to ride ...
Page 19
... gives him this character : " He was a man of emi- nent parts and resolution , for which rea son he was chosen by the western coun- ties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of ...
... gives him this character : " He was a man of emi- nent parts and resolution , for which rea son he was chosen by the western coun- ties one of the committee of noblemen and gentlemen , to report their griefs to the privy council of ...
Page 30
... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pe- dagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by ...
... give him , and the poor for nothing ; and , to the shame of the former be it spoken , the pe- dagogue's gains never equalled those of a skilful ploughman . He wrote , however , a good hand , and added something to his pittance by ...
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... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astrologer , over- powered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
... give him credit for being half serious . As for Meg , she fixed her bewildered eyes upon the astrologer , over- powered by a jargon more mysterious than her own . Mannering pressed his advantage , and ran over all the hard terms of art ...
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