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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... father's speculations was soon seen . Deprived of his personal and active superintendance , all his under- takings miscarried , and became either abor tive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfor ...
... father's speculations was soon seen . Deprived of his personal and active superintendance , all his under- takings miscarried , and became either abor tive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfor ...
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... father in such a predicament , " till I hear she's got- ten ower with it - and if you , sir , are not very sleepry , and would do me and the Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late .. Luckie ...
... father in such a predicament , " till I hear she's got- ten ower with it - and if you , sir , are not very sleepry , and would do me and the Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late .. Luckie ...
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... of Com mons - now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a jacobite , and out with Ken- more , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not well how it was , but all that 34 GUY MANNERING .
... of Com mons - now I should have voted there for the Laird of Balruddery ; but ye see my father was a jacobite , and out with Ken- more , so he never took the oaths ; and I ken not well how it was , but all that 34 GUY MANNERING .
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... him , with great glee , that he was the father of a healthy boy , seemed rather disposed to press further convivia- lity . He admitted , however , Mannering's plea of weariness , and conducting him to his sleeping 50 GUY MANNERING .
... him , with great glee , that he was the father of a healthy boy , seemed rather disposed to press further convivia- lity . He admitted , however , Mannering's plea of weariness , and conducting him to his sleeping 50 GUY MANNERING .
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... father's stories about the old fights of the MacDingawaies -- that's the Bertrams that now is - wi ' the Irish , and wi ' the Highlanders , that came here in their berlings from Hay and Cantire- and how they went to the Holy Land- that ...
... father's stories about the old fights of the MacDingawaies -- that's the Bertrams that now is - wi ' the Irish , and wi ' the Highlanders , that came here in their berlings from Hay and Cantire- and how they went to the Holy Land- that ...
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