Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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Page 4
... perhaps God will resume the blessing He has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring . " " Neither the one nor the ...
... perhaps God will resume the blessing He has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring . " " Neither the one nor the ...
Page 5
... perhaps of its vices . In short , preserve him as far as possible from all sin , save that of which too great a portion belongs to all the fallen race of Adam . With the approach of his twenty - first birthday comes the crisis of his ...
... perhaps of its vices . In short , preserve him as far as possible from all sin , save that of which too great a portion belongs to all the fallen race of Adam . With the approach of his twenty - first birthday comes the crisis of his ...
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... perhaps not an unedifying , tale , out of the incidents of the life of a doomed individual , whose efforts at good and virtuous conduct were to be for ever disappointed by the intervention , as it were , of some malevolent being , and ...
... perhaps not an unedifying , tale , out of the incidents of the life of a doomed individual , whose efforts at good and virtuous conduct were to be for ever disappointed by the intervention , as it were , of some malevolent being , and ...
Page 10
... Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calculations , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself , many tricks upon cards , & c . , are performed , induced this gentleman to study the combination of the stars and ...
... Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse calculations , by which , in a manner surprising to the artist himself , many tricks upon cards , & c . , are performed , induced this gentleman to study the combination of the stars and ...
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... perhaps , from the rectitude and sim- plicity of character which it displays , may interest the heart and fill the eye of the reader as irresistibly as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These ...
... perhaps , from the rectitude and sim- plicity of character which it displays , may interest the heart and fill the eye of the reader as irresistibly as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood House head heard honour hope horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker