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a can you will frankly avow to you , Alice , that I am not a sworn bigot to the opinions entertained by my father , much as I respect his person . I would that our Cavaliers or whatsoever they are pleased to call themselves , would have ...
a can you will frankly avow to you , Alice , that I am not a sworn bigot to the opinions entertained by my father , much as I respect his person . I would that our Cavaliers or whatsoever they are pleased to call themselves , would have ...
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Nay , I desire no thanks -- I have to require of you , in return , a piece of service , not perhaps entirely safe to yourself , but which , as times are circumstanced no person is so well able to render to my house .
Nay , I desire no thanks -- I have to require of you , in return , a piece of service , not perhaps entirely safe to yourself , but which , as times are circumstanced no person is so well able to render to my house .
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“ Nay , but , madam , " replied Julian , “ I do not run the same risk - my person is not known in London - my situation , though not obscure in my own country , is too little known to be noticed in that huge assemblage of all that is ...
“ Nay , but , madam , " replied Julian , “ I do not run the same risk - my person is not known in London - my situation , though not obscure in my own country , is too little known to be noticed in that huge assemblage of all that is ...
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... a Ban - shie , or female spirit , who was wont to shriek , “ forboding evil times ; ” and who was generally seen weeping and bemoaning herself before the death of any person of distinction belonging to the family .
... a Ban - shie , or female spirit , who was wont to shriek , “ forboding evil times ; ” and who was generally seen weeping and bemoaning herself before the death of any person of distinction belonging to the family .
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... persons to whom they are addressed so disguised , that you will run no danger in conversing with them . Without their aid , indeed , you will not be able to obtain the acVOL . II . - 5 curate information you go to seek .
... persons to whom they are addressed so disguised , that you will run no danger in conversing with them . Without their aid , indeed , you will not be able to obtain the acVOL . II . - 5 curate information you go to seek .
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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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