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One instant set the palfrey at liberty , with slackened girths and loosened reins , to pick its own way through the dell at will , another placed Julian Peveril by the ze side of Alice Bridgenorth . That Alice should extend her hand to ...
One instant set the palfrey at liberty , with slackened girths and loosened reins , to pick its own way through the dell at will , another placed Julian Peveril by the ze side of Alice Bridgenorth . That Alice should extend her hand to ...
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... wild flowers backed with a bush of copsewood , he took his place beside her , indeed , but at such distance as to intimate the duty of an attendant , who was there only to hear and to obey . Alice Bridgenorth became more assured ...
... wild flowers backed with a bush of copsewood , he took his place beside her , indeed , but at such distance as to intimate the duty of an attendant , who was there only to hear and to obey . Alice Bridgenorth became more assured ...
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You do Master Bridgenorth less than justice in confounding him with the unreasonable bigots in policy and religion , who can listen to no argument but what favours their own prepossessions . ” “ Julian , ” replied Alice , “ it is you ...
You do Master Bridgenorth less than justice in confounding him with the unreasonable bigots in policy and religion , who can listen to no argument but what favours their own prepossessions . ” “ Julian , ” replied Alice , “ it is you ...
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If hereafter in your line there should arise some who may think the claims of the hierarchy too exorbitant , the powers of the crown too extensive , men shall not say these ideas were derived from Alice Bridgenorth , their whig grand ...
If hereafter in your line there should arise some who may think the claims of the hierarchy too exorbitant , the powers of the crown too extensive , men shall not say these ideas were derived from Alice Bridgenorth , their whig grand ...
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any more than “ You can not blind me with your sophistry , Julian , ” replied Alice Bridgenorth , you can overpower me with your passion . Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience ...
any more than “ You can not blind me with your sophistry , Julian , ” replied Alice Bridgenorth , you can overpower me with your passion . Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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| Title | Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2 Peveril of the Peak, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | James Crissy, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 25, 2007 |
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