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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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Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience to a divine commandment , he had meditated a murder , and not a sacrifice . In our late bloody and lamentable wars , how many drew swords ...
Had the patriarch destined his son to death upon any less ground than faith and humble obedience to a divine commandment , he had meditated a murder , and not a sacrifice . In our late bloody and lamentable wars , how many drew swords ...
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said Bridgenorth , dropping his young friend's hand , but presently resuming it- " Alas ! that church , as now constituted , usurps scarcely less than Rome herself upon men's consciences and liberties ; yet out of the weakness of this ...
said Bridgenorth , dropping his young friend's hand , but presently resuming it- " Alas ! that church , as now constituted , usurps scarcely less than Rome herself upon men's consciences and liberties ; yet out of the weakness of this ...
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Dispatch is , doubtless , desirable ; on the other hand , arriving from your own family - seat , you will be less an object of doubt and suspicion , than if you posted up from hence , without even visiting ...
Dispatch is , doubtless , desirable ; on the other hand , arriving from your own family - seat , you will be less an object of doubt and suspicion , than if you posted up from hence , without even visiting ...
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... which she accompanied with low inarticulate moaning ( which she was probably the less able to suppress , beause she could not judge how far it was a audible , ) and also with wringing of the PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 43.
... which she accompanied with low inarticulate moaning ( which she was probably the less able to suppress , beause she could not judge how far it was a audible , ) and also with wringing of the PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 43.
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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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