Guy Mannering, Or, The AstrologerBernhard Tauchnitz, 1846 - 467 pages |
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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 aff his grunds black be his cast ! he ' s nae gentleman , nor drap's bluid o ' gentleman , wad grudge twa gangrel puir bodies the shelter o ' a waste house , and the thristles by the road - side for a bit cuddy , and the bits o ...
... Young aff his grunds black be his cast ! he ' s nae gentleman , nor drap's bluid o ' gentleman , wad grudge twa gangrel puir bodies the shelter o ' a waste house , and the thristles by the road - side for a bit cuddy , and the bits o ...
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... young heir of Ellangowan . He undertook the task secundum artem , as well to keep up appearances , as from a sort of curiosity to know whether he yet remembered , and could practise , the imaginary science . He accordingly erected his ...
... young heir of Ellangowan . He undertook the task secundum artem , as well to keep up appearances , as from a sort of curiosity to know whether he yet remembered , and could practise , the imaginary science . He accordingly erected his ...
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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 suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker