Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley, Том 1Archibald Constable & Company, Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson & Company, London, 1824 |
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... speak upon gene- ral subjects , as upon his own affairs . But he was sometimes led into discussions , which shewed , as it were in spite of himself , the scholar and the man of the world ; and , at other times , as if in requital of the ...
... speak upon gene- ral subjects , as upon his own affairs . But he was sometimes led into discussions , which shewed , as it were in spite of himself , the scholar and the man of the world ; and , at other times , as if in requital of the ...
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... speak plainly , ( I wish they were peculiar to himself , ) of cultivating the glebe six days in the week , preach- ing on the seventh with due regularity , and dining with some fat franklin or country laird , with whom he could smoke a ...
... speak plainly , ( I wish they were peculiar to himself , ) of cultivating the glebe six days in the week , preach- ing on the seventh with due regularity , and dining with some fat franklin or country laird , with whom he could smoke a ...
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... speaking of his farm - servants and horses , " make it all , and the carles and cart - avers eat it all ; " a conclusion which might sum up the year - book of many a gentleman - farmer . Matters would have soon been brought to a close ...
... speaking of his farm - servants and horses , " make it all , and the carles and cart - avers eat it all ; " a conclusion which might sum up the year - book of many a gentleman - farmer . Matters would have soon been brought to a close ...
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... speak of what is in the house , and a fitting man to have the charge of it . — Hark , as I live by bread , I hear a tapping at the outer yett ! " " Go and open it then , Baby , " said her brother , glad at any thing that promised to ...
... speak of what is in the house , and a fitting man to have the charge of it . — Hark , as I live by bread , I hear a tapping at the outer yett ! " " Go and open it then , Baby , " said her brother , glad at any thing that promised to ...
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... wallies , we'll no be weel hafted here before we are found out and set a trotting again . If ane was to speak to ye about a gold mine , I ken weel wha would promise he suld have Portugal pieces clink- ing in THE PIRATE . 91.
... wallies , we'll no be weel hafted here before we are found out and set a trotting again . If ane was to speak to ye about a gold mine , I ken weel wha would promise he suld have Portugal pieces clink- ing in THE PIRATE . 91.
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