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Page 10
... reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description , 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 ...
... reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description , 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 ...
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... reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market- day , soon after the year 1746 , where she gave vent to her political partiality , to the great offence of the rabble ...
... reader may choose to rank it , that of being a stanch Jacobite . She chanced to be at Carlisle upon a fair or market- day , soon after the year 1746 , where she gave vent to her political partiality , to the great offence of the rabble ...
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... reader some insight into his state and conver- sation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a whisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
... reader some insight into his state and conver- sation , before he has finished a long lecture to Mannering , upon the propriety and comfort of wrapping his stirrup - irons round with a whisp of straw when he had occasion to ride in a ...
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... 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 , bought and sold Highland cattle and ...
... 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 , bought and sold Highland cattle and ...
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... reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Domine Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon se ...
... reader in some degree acquainted with his companion . This was Abel Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Domine Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon se ...
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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 e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope horse Jean Gordon Julia justice 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 prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tram turned voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker