Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... Major ; " no one has , as yet , seen you show yourself either . Interrupt me not - I question not your will to be both ; but you have hitherto neither had the light nor the op- portunity necessary for the display of your princi- ples ...
... Major ; " no one has , as yet , seen you show yourself either . Interrupt me not - I question not your will to be both ; but you have hitherto neither had the light nor the op- portunity necessary for the display of your princi- ples ...
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... Major Bridgenorth , " replied Peveril- " It were easy to say that my country can not make a claim on me which I will not promptly answer at the risk of lands and life . But in dealing thus generally , we should but deceive each other ...
... Major Bridgenorth , " replied Peveril- " It were easy to say that my country can not make a claim on me which I will not promptly answer at the risk of lands and life . But in dealing thus generally , we should but deceive each other ...
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... Major Bridgenorth ; and I have asked you for no explanation . Listen to a caution on my part , given with the most sincere good will . Hear a hint of mine , and believe it , though it is darkly expressed . You are here - at least are ...
... Major Bridgenorth ; and I have asked you for no explanation . Listen to a caution on my part , given with the most sincere good will . Hear a hint of mine , and believe it , though it is darkly expressed . You are here - at least are ...
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... Major Bridgenorth had some plan in prospect , which it was in his own power to further or to im- pede ; while , from the demeanour , and indeed the language , of Alice , he had but too much reason to apprehend that her father's favour ...
... Major Bridgenorth had some plan in prospect , which it was in his own power to further or to im- pede ; while , from the demeanour , and indeed the language , of Alice , he had but too much reason to apprehend that her father's favour ...
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... Major Bridgenorth one syllable of what I now avow . Respecting other matters , he himself can not desire the welfare of our common country with more zeal than I do . Differences may occur concerning the mode in which that is to be ...
... Major Bridgenorth one syllable of what I now avow . Respecting other matters , he himself can not desire the welfare of our common country with more zeal than I do . Differences may occur concerning the mode in which that is to be ...
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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.