Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
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... Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation , as a pedagogue , Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of dispo sition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope ...
... Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation , as a pedagogue , Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of dispo sition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope ...
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... Sampson the ridicule of all his school- companions . The same qualities secured him at college a plentiful share of the same sort of notice . Half the youthful mob " of the yards " used to assemble regularly to see Dominie Sampson ...
... Sampson the ridicule of all his school- companions . The same qualities secured him at college a plentiful share of the same sort of notice . Half the youthful mob " of the yards " used to assemble regularly to see Dominie Sampson ...
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... Sampson either exhibited irritability at this ill usage , or made the least attempt to retort upon his tormentors . his tormentors . He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover , and plunged himself into his ...
... Sampson either exhibited irritability at this ill usage , or made the least attempt to retort upon his tormentors . his tormentors . He slunk from college by the most secret paths he could discover , and plunged himself into his ...
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Walter Scott. In progress of time , Abel Sampson , pro- bationer of divinity , was admitted to the privileges of a ... Sampson bore a disappoint- ment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be ...
Walter Scott. In progress of time , Abel Sampson , pro- bationer of divinity , was admitted to the privileges of a ... Sampson bore a disappoint- ment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be ...
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... Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject by a smart young student of humanity , to the sly hope of the principal , that the fugitive had not taken the college gates along with him in his retreat . To all appearance the equanimity ...
... Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject by a smart young student of humanity , to the sly hope of the principal , that the fugitive had not taken the college gates along with him in his retreat . To all appearance the equanimity ...
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