Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to cause the assistants to retard the birth , if practicable , were it but for five minutes . The answer declared this to be impossible ...
... observations induced him to send for the father , and conjure him , in the most solemn manner , to cause the assistants to retard the birth , if practicable , were it but for five minutes . The answer declared this to be impossible ...
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... observation he only heard what was pure in precept — he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . ― But when the boy began to be lost in the youth , the attentive father saw cause for alarm . Shades of sadness , which gradually ...
... observation he only heard what was pure in precept — he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . ― But when the boy began to be lost in the youth , the attentive father saw cause for alarm . Shades of sadness , which gradually ...
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... the original tenor of the story , although they now hang upon it as an unnecessary and unnatural encumbrance . The cause of such vestiges occurring is now explained , and apologized for . It is here worthy of observation , that while the 8.
... the original tenor of the story , although they now hang upon it as an unnecessary and unnatural encumbrance . The cause of such vestiges occurring is now explained , and apologized for . It is here worthy of observation , that while the 8.
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Sir Walter Scott. It is here worthy of observation , that while the astrological doctrines have fallen into general contempt , and been supplanted by superstitions of a more gross and far less beautiful character , they have , even in ...
Sir Walter Scott. It is here worthy of observation , that while the astrological doctrines have fallen into general contempt , and been supplanted by superstitions of a more gross and far less beautiful character , they have , even in ...
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... plentiful repast , which the farmer , to the great increase of his anxiety , observed , was calculated for ten or twelve guests , of the same description , probably , with his landlady . " Jean left him in no doubt on the subject 11.
... plentiful repast , which the farmer , to the great increase of his anxiety , observed , was calculated for ten or twelve guests , of the same description , probably , with his landlady . " Jean left him in no doubt on the subject 11.
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger supposed tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker