Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page vii
... receiving Mr. Scott's letter , " wrote Train , " I became still more zealous in the pursuit of ancient lore , and , being the first person who had attempted to collect old stories in that quarter with any view to publication , I became ...
... receiving Mr. Scott's letter , " wrote Train , " I became still more zealous in the pursuit of ancient lore , and , being the first person who had attempted to collect old stories in that quarter with any view to publication , I became ...
Page 10
... received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind sufficient even to constitute the mainspring of a romance . Besides , it occurred , that to do justice to such a subject would have required ...
... received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind sufficient even to constitute the mainspring of a romance . Besides , it occurred , that to do justice to such a subject would have required ...
Page 12
... received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from committing any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood ...
... received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from committing any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood ...
Page 53
... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbouring workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like a bad shilling ...
... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbouring workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like a bad shilling ...
Page 55
... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordinary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this intermixture , the national character of Egyptians ...
... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordinary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this intermixture , the national character of Egyptians ...
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