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The following is a list of the works of Sir Walter Scott , 1771 - 1832 :“ Disputatio
Juridica , ” etc . , 1792 ( Exercise on being called to the Bar ) ; The Chase , and
William and Helen ( from German of Bürger ) 1796 ; Goetz of Berlichingen ...
The following is a list of the works of Sir Walter Scott , 1771 - 1832 :“ Disputatio
Juridica , ” etc . , 1792 ( Exercise on being called to the Bar ) ; The Chase , and
William and Helen ( from German of Bürger ) 1796 ; Goetz of Berlichingen ...
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... prototypes of the principal characters in “ Guy Mannering . " Some
circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of
seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are
called gipsies ...
... prototypes of the principal characters in “ Guy Mannering . " Some
circumstances of local situation gave the author , in his youth , an opportunity of
seeing a little , and hearing a great deal , about that degraded class who are
called gipsies ...
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The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer ...
The end of all this was , an inquiry what money the farmer had about him ; and an
urgent request , or command , that he would make her his purse - keeper , since
the bairns , as she called her sons , would be soon home . The poor farmer ...
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His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony carltrack , next
over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry - stone
fence , and lugged the unresisting anirnal through the breach , about a rood of
the ...
His guide then dragged the weary hack along a broken and stony carltrack , next
over a ploughed field , then broke down a slap , as he called it , in a dry - stone
fence , and lugged the unresisting anirnal through the breach , about a rood of
the ...
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In truth , they had been formerly the stormy chiefs of a desert , but extensive
domain , and the heads of a numerous tribe , called MacDingawaie , though they
afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war ,
raised ...
In truth , they had been formerly the stormy chiefs of a desert , but extensive
domain , and the heads of a numerous tribe , called MacDingawaie , though they
afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram . They had made war ,
raised ...
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