Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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... Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it — but ye needna be feared - I never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the ...
... Ellangowan Auld Place ; there's a hantle bogles about it — but ye needna be feared - I never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the ...
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... Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree , and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
... Ellangowan , succeeded to a long pedigree , and a short rent - roll , like many lairds of that period . His list of forefathers ascended so high , that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence ; so that his ...
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... Ellangowan . He turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milkmaid ) , drank him- self daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and ...
... Ellangowan . He turned out of doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milkmaid ) , drank him- self daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and ...
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... Ellangowan to interfere with politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Kenmore in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
... Ellangowan to interfere with politics , he had yet the prudence , ere he went out with Lord Kenmore in 1715 , to convey his estate to trustees , in order to parry pains and penalties , in case the Earl of Mar could not put down the ...
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... Ellangowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to make payment of the expenses of a long lawsuit , although he had never before heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his ...
... Ellangowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to make payment of the expenses of a long lawsuit , although he had never before heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his ...
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