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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CHAPTER III . Do not the histries of all ages Relate miraculous presages , Of
strange turns in the world ' s affairs , Foreseen by astrologers , sooth - sayers ,
Chaldeans , learned Genethliacs , And some that have writ almanacks ?
HUDIBRAS .
CHAPTER III . Do not the histries of all ages Relate miraculous presages , Of
strange turns in the world ' s affairs , Foreseen by astrologers , sooth - sayers ,
Chaldeans , learned Genethliacs , And some that have writ almanacks ?
HUDIBRAS .
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No doubt , when this learned gentleman had possessed himself of the axe , he
hewed the laws with it to some purpose . Mr Bertram was not quite so ignorant of
English grammar as his worshipful predecessor ; but Augustus Pease himself ...
No doubt , when this learned gentleman had possessed himself of the axe , he
hewed the laws with it to some purpose . Mr Bertram was not quite so ignorant of
English grammar as his worshipful predecessor ; but Augustus Pease himself ...
Page 206
Yet , since I have come to the very house from which I now write , I have learned
a singular coincidence , which , if I find it truly established by tolerable evidence ,
will serve us hereafter for subject of curious discussion . But I will spare you at ...
Yet , since I have come to the very house from which I now write , I have learned
a singular coincidence , which , if I find it truly established by tolerable evidence ,
will serve us hereafter for subject of curious discussion . But I will spare you at ...
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I shall never have courage to tell my fathernay , most deeply do I fear he has
already learned my secret from another quarter , which will entirely remove the
grace of my communication , and ruin whatever gleam of hope I had ventured to ...
I shall never have courage to tell my fathernay , most deeply do I fear he has
already learned my secret from another quarter , which will entirely remove the
grace of my communication , and ruin whatever gleam of hope I had ventured to ...
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The deceased prelate , a divine of the old and deeply . learned cast , had loaded
his shelves with volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes
so happily described by a modern poet , 02 GUY MANNERING . 321 description.
The deceased prelate , a divine of the old and deeply . learned cast , had loaded
his shelves with volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes
so happily described by a modern poet , 02 GUY MANNERING . 321 description.
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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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