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Julian Peveril's mind had been early illumined with that touch of romantic fire which deprives passion of selfishness , and confers on it the high and refined tone of generous and disinterested devotion . He let go the hand of Alice ...
Julian Peveril's mind had been early illumined with that touch of romantic fire which deprives passion of selfishness , and confers on it the high and refined tone of generous and disinterested devotion . He let go the hand of Alice ...
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If he shows them not to you at first , in the inflexible strength which they have acquired over his mind , do not believe that they are the less powerful . He who desires to make converts , must begin by degrees .
If he shows them not to you at first , in the inflexible strength which they have acquired over his mind , do not believe that they are the less powerful . He who desires to make converts , must begin by degrees .
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Yes , sir , I thank you , " said Major Bridgenorth , in the same cold sarcastic tone , 6 for having shown me that breach of hospitality , infringement of good faith , and such like peccadilloes , are not utterly foreign to the mind and ...
Yes , sir , I thank you , " said Major Bridgenorth , in the same cold sarcastic tone , 6 for having shown me that breach of hospitality , infringement of good faith , and such like peccadilloes , are not utterly foreign to the mind and ...
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You have lived when an apathy of mind , succeeding to the agitations of the Civil War , had made men indifferent to state affairs , and more willing to cultivate their own ease than to stand in the gap when the Lord was pleading with ...
You have lived when an apathy of mind , succeeding to the agitations of the Civil War , had made men indifferent to state affairs , and more willing to cultivate their own ease than to stand in the gap when the Lord was pleading with ...
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... that Church over the consciences of men- -and her impious pretensions to infallibility , are as inconsistent in my mind as they can seem in yours , with common sense , rational liberty , freedom of conscience , and pure religion .
... that Church over the consciences of men- -and her impious pretensions to infallibility , are as inconsistent in my mind as they can seem in yours , with common sense , rational liberty , freedom of conscience , and pure religion .
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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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