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Select Works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a Memoir of the Life and Writings ... - Page 17
by Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835
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The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, Volume 1

Tobias Smollett - 1774 - 312 pages
...ferryboat in which I was paflenger. — Another time for having recovered of a bruife occafioned by a horfe and cart running over me. — A third time for being bit by a baker's dog. — In fhort, whether I was guilty or unfortunate, the correction and fympathy of this arbitrary pedagogue...
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The Adventures of Roderick Random: In Two Volumes

Tobias Smollett - Adventure stories, English - 1780 - 580 pages
...which I was pall'en«er. Another time, for having recovered of a bruileoccalionedby a horfe and cait running over me. A third time, for being bit by a baker's dog. In flioi t, whether I was guilty or unfortunate, the correction and fympathy of thi& arbitiary pedagogue...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.: The life of Smollett. The ...

Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 590 pages
...ferry-boat in which I was paffenger ; another time for having recovered of a bruifc occafioned by a horfe and cart running over me ; a third time for being bit by a baker's dog. la fbort, •whether I was guilty or unfor:unate, the correction and lympathy of this arbitrary pedagogue...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The life of Smollett. The ...

Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry-boat in which I was passenger ; another time for having recovered of a bruise occasioned by a horse and cart running ovec me ; a third time for being bit by a baker's dog. In short, whether I was guilty or unfortunate,...
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The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of ..., Volume 2

Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry-boat in which I was passenger ; another time for having recovered of a...over that slavish awe which had hitherto enforced ray obedience ; and the more my years and knowledge increased, the more I perceived the injustice and...
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The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of ..., Volume 2

Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry-boat in which I was passenger ; another time for having recovered of a...by a baker's dog. In short, whether I was guilty or unfoitunate, the correction and sympathy of this arbitrary pedagogue were the same. Far from being...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...by the sinking of a ferryboat in which I was a passenger ; another time for having recovered of .i bruise occasioned by a horse and cart running over...pedagogue were the same. Far from being subdued by this cruel usage, my indignation triumphed over that slavish awe which had hitherto enforced my obedience...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning by the sinkmg of a ferryboat in which I was a passenger ; another time for having recovered of a bruise occasioned by a l.orse and cart running over me; a third time for being bit by a baker's dog. In short, whether I was...
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Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors ...

Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...26 CHARACTER OF CHARLES I. narrowly escaped drowning by the sinking of a ferryboat in which I was a passenger; another time for having recovered of a...pedagogue were the same. Far from being subdued by this cruel usage, my indignation triumphed over that slavish awe which had hitherto enforced my obedieuce;...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett: Carefully Selected and Edited from the Best ...

Tobias Smollett - 1870 - 668 pages
...was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry-boat in which I was passenger ; another time for having recovered of a...running over me ; a third time for being bit by a baker s dog. In short, whether I was guilty or unfortunate, the correction and sympathy of this arbitrary...
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