The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1Cadell and Company, 1834 - Chivalry |
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... Whig publisher , entitled , " The Saint turned Courtezan , or a new plot discovered by a precious Zealot of an Assault and Battery designed upon the Body of a sanctified Sister , " Who , in her husband's absence , with a brother Did ...
... Whig publisher , entitled , " The Saint turned Courtezan , or a new plot discovered by a precious Zealot of an Assault and Battery designed upon the Body of a sanctified Sister , " Who , in her husband's absence , with a brother Did ...
Page 211
... late ; He had his jest , and they had his estate . He laugh'd himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties , but could ne'er be chief ; Bethel , the Whig sheriff , whose scandalous avarice was LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 211.
... late ; He had his jest , and they had his estate . He laugh'd himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties , but could ne'er be chief ; Bethel , the Whig sheriff , whose scandalous avarice was LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 211.
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Walter Scott. Bethel , the Whig sheriff , whose scandalous avarice was only equalled by his factious turbulence ; and Titus Oates , the pretended discoverer of the Po- pish Plot . The account of the Tory chiefs , who retained , in the ...
Walter Scott. Bethel , the Whig sheriff , whose scandalous avarice was only equalled by his factious turbulence ; and Titus Oates , the pretended discoverer of the Po- pish Plot . The account of the Tory chiefs , who retained , in the ...
Page 213
... Whigs gradually declined , both in spirit , in power , and in popularity . Their boldest leaders were for a time appalled ; 1 and when they resumed their measures , they gradually approached rather revolution than reform , and thus ...
... Whigs gradually declined , both in spirit , in power , and in popularity . Their boldest leaders were for a time appalled ; 1 and when they resumed their measures , they gradually approached rather revolution than reform , and thus ...
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... Whig party , out of which the sheriffs had carefully selected them , refused to find the bill of high treason against him . This was a subject of unbounded triumph to his adherents , who cele- brated his acquittal by the most public ...
... Whig party , out of which the sheriffs had carefully selected them , refused to find the bill of high treason against him . This was a subject of unbounded triumph to his adherents , who cele- brated his acquittal by the most public ...
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