Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer |
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... young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring . " " Neither ...
... young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood , or perhaps he is destined to be unworthy of the affection which we are naturally disposed to devote to our offspring . " " Neither ...
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... young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation he only heard what was pure in precept — he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . ― But when the boy began to be ...
... young Nazarene could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was withheld from his observation he only heard what was pure in precept — he only witnessed what was worthy in practice . ― But when the boy began to be ...
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... young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason and religion , the fits of gloom which at times overcast his mind , and it was not till he attained the com- mencement of his twenty - first year , that they assumed a character ...
... young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason and religion , the fits of gloom which at times overcast his mind , and it was not till he attained the com- mencement of his twenty - first year , that they assumed a character ...
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... young lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to every thing she did or said ...
... young lady about eighteen years of age , and so lovely , that the sight of her carried off the feelings of the young stranger from the peculiarity and mystery of his own lot , and riveted his attention to every thing she did or said ...
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... young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self so , when like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible by the scrupulousness with which he had been ...
... young man was left alone ; and hardly did he find him- self so , when like a swarm of demons , the recollection of all his sins of omission and commission , rendered even more terrible by the scrupulousness with which he had been ...
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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