Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page 14
... reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market - day , soon after the year 1746 , where she gave vent to her political partiality , to the great offence of the rabble ...
... reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market - day , soon after the year 1746 , where she gave vent to her political partiality , to the great offence of the rabble ...
Page 16
... reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description , Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward ...
... reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description , Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward ...
Page 17
... reader as irresistibly as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These preliminary notices concerning the tale of " Guy Mannering , " and some of the characters introduced , may save the author and reader ...
... reader as irresistibly as if it respected distresses of a more dignified or refined character . These preliminary notices concerning the tale of " Guy Mannering , " and some of the characters introduced , may save the author and reader ...
Page 24
... reader some insight into his state and conversa- tion , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
... reader some insight into his state and conversa- tion , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a wisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
Page 26
... readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and ...
... readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and ...
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