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... danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask - nothing to wish for . Use your own reason ...
... danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask - nothing to wish for . Use your own reason ...
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... dangerous to her , or displeasing to me , she had not been long the inhabitant of this solitude , or of this island . But be not so hasty as to presume , that all which you may desire in this matter can be either easily or speedily ac ...
... dangerous to her , or displeasing to me , she had not been long the inhabitant of this solitude , or of this island . But be not so hasty as to presume , that all which you may desire in this matter can be either easily or speedily ac ...
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... danger , when men , who were not usually influenced by the vanities of life , employed much money in ornaments composed of the pre- cious metals . It was a sign that the merchant could not obtain a profit for the capital , which , for ...
... danger , when men , who were not usually influenced by the vanities of life , employed much money in ornaments composed of the pre- cious metals . It was a sign that the merchant could not obtain a profit for the capital , which , for ...
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... it may be something sa- lutary to tear men from their pomps and luxu- ries , and teach those to be Romans who would otherwise be Sybarites . But I would say , that times of public danger , as they call into circula- 42 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
... it may be something sa- lutary to tear men from their pomps and luxu- ries , and teach those to be Romans who would otherwise be Sybarites . But I would say , that times of public danger , as they call into circula- 42 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
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Walter Scott. times of public danger , as they call into circula- tion the miser's horde and the proud man's bul- lion , and so add to the circulating wealth of the country , do also call into action many a brave and noble spirit , which ...
Walter Scott. times of public danger , as they call into circula- tion the miser's horde and the proud man's bul- lion , and so add to the circulating wealth of the country , do also call into action many a brave and noble spirit , which ...
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