Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page iii
... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded , but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant , resem- blance . The tale ...
... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded , but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant , resem- blance . The tale ...
Page v
... Better , far better , that they torment him by un- grateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " " 6 The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by ...
... Better , far better , that they torment him by un- grateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " " 6 The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by ...
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... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
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... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 66 Certainly sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 66 Certainly sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
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... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazle Hazlewood-house head heard honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner racter recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed shew Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker