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 24
He was even a kind of favourite with them , and upon the division of a common ,
or the holding of a black - fishing , or poaching court , or any similar occasion ,
when they conceived themselves oppressed by the gentry , they were in the habit
of ...
He was even a kind of favourite with them , and upon the division of a common ,
or the holding of a black - fishing , or poaching court , or any similar occasion ,
when they conceived themselves oppressed by the gentry , they were in the habit
of ...
Page 53
Upon the present occasion , he arose as early in the morning as the shortness of
the day permitted , and proceeded to calculate the nativity of the young heir of
Ellangówan . He undertook the task se . cundum artem , as well to keep up ...
Upon the present occasion , he arose as early in the morning as the shortness of
the day permitted , and proceeded to calculate the nativity of the young heir of
Ellangówan . He undertook the task se . cundum artem , as well to keep up ...
Page 114
Upon one occasion , when the child was ill , she lay all night below the window ,
chaunting a rhyme which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge , and could
neither be prevailed upon to enter the house , nor to leave the station she had
chosen ...
Upon one occasion , when the child was ill , she lay all night below the window ,
chaunting a rhyme which she believed sovereign as a febrifuge , and could
neither be prevailed upon to enter the house , nor to leave the station she had
chosen ...
Page 116
It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter
occasion , that the Laird might as well trust the care of his child to a " potatoe -
bogle ; " but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity
equally ...
It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter
occasion , that the Laird might as well trust the care of his child to a " potatoe -
bogle ; " but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity
equally ...
Page 200
Let me do my unhappy victim justice - he behaved with such gallantry on every
occasion that offered , that the first vacant commission was considered as his due
. I was absent for some weeks upon a distant expedition ; - when I re , turned , I ...
Let me do my unhappy victim justice - he behaved with such gallantry on every
occasion that offered , that the first vacant commission was considered as his due
. I was absent for some weeks upon a distant expedition ; - when I re , turned , I ...
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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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