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" ... an imitation of the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my prudence injustice in the supposition. My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author, in describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually... "
The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions - Page 25
by Walter Scott - 1841
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Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, Volume 1

Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1815 - 310 pages
...perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more cojnmon aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences...sympathy with his. own feelings, or concluding that the present'state of things was calculated to exhibit the reality of those visions in which he loved to...
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since. 3 vols. [in 1].

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses , but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...general sympathy with his own feelings, or concluding thai the present state of tilings was calculated to exhibit the reality of those visions in which he...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1845 - 508 pages
...descrihing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...that the present state of things was calculated to exhihit the reality of those visions in which he loved to indulge, that he dreaded nothing more than...
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The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes, Volume 1

Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 pages
...such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, hut that more common aberration from sound judgment, which...tone and colouring. So far was Edward Waverley from rxpecting general sympathy with his own feelings, or concluding that the present state of things was...
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 2

Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 712 pages
...•ensee, bui that more common aberration from sound kidçment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in beir reality, but communicates to them a tincture of Its...with his own feelings, or concluding that the present «täte of things was calculated to exhibit the reality of those visions in which he loved to indulge,...
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The novels of sir Walter Scott, with all his introductions and notes, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romautic tone and colouring. So far was Edward Waverley from expecting general sympathy with his own...
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Waverley, Volume 1

Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1899 - 484 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and coloring. So far was Edward Waverley from expecting general sympathy with his own feelings, or concluding...
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The Handy Volume "Waverley" ...: Waverley

Walter Scott - 1877 - 572 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...with his own feelings, or concluding that the present slate of things was calculated to exhibit the reality of those visions in which he loved to indulge,...
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The Liberal Movement in English Literature

William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 272 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring.' So, too, in his renderings of history. Nothing would have been easier for him in ' Old Mortality,' for...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1886 - 526 pages
...describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment,...was Edward Waverley from expecting general sympathy vrith his own feelings, or concluding that the present state of things was calculated to exhibit the...
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