The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... reasons , it may be in like man- ner said , that the most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and ... reason from autho rity to fact , but to establish truth by advancing from fact to fact , till they fixed an ...
... reasons , it may be in like man- ner said , that the most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and ... reason from autho rity to fact , but to establish truth by advancing from fact to fact , till they fixed an ...
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... reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the law . These privileges were de- rived from its having been an establishment of the Carmelites , or White Friars , founded , says Stow , in his Survey of ...
... reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the law . These privileges were de- rived from its having been an establishment of the Carmelites , or White Friars , founded , says Stow , in his Survey of ...
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... reason why you do not make the theatrical attempt to which you have been so often urged ? Author . It may pass for one good reason for not writing a play , that I cannot form a plot . But the truth is , that the idea adopted by too ...
... reason why you do not make the theatrical attempt to which you have been so often urged ? Author . It may pass for one good reason for not writing a play , that I cannot form a plot . But the truth is , that the idea adopted by too ...
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... reason gude ; and besides that , it wad have redd the gate for my ain little bill . But what wi ' the dirdum an ' confu- sion , an ' the loupin here and there of the skeigh brute of a horse , I believe I crammed them baith into his hand ...
... reason gude ; and besides that , it wad have redd the gate for my ain little bill . But what wi ' the dirdum an ' confu- sion , an ' the loupin here and there of the skeigh brute of a horse , I believe I crammed them baith into his hand ...
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... reason , was allowed to make her cell here in London , or some unhappy Popish devotee , who was in the course of undergoing a dreadful pe- nance . As it is , I know not what to deem of it . " His reverie was interrupted by the linkboy ...
... reason , was allowed to make her cell here in London , or some unhappy Popish devotee , who was in the course of undergoing a dreadful pe- nance . As it is , I know not what to deem of it . " His reverie was interrupted by the linkboy ...
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