Guy Mannering, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1857 - Scotland |
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... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor , modest , humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain ...
... Dominie Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor , modest , humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain ...
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... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his deter- mination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his deter- mination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school , and supported his patron's child for the ...
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... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
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... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even ... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even ... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and ...
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... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from here- abouts — ye needna shake your head ...
... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we shall not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from here- abouts — ye needna shake your head ...
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