Waverley Or 'tis Sixty Years SinceDavid Wilson, 1870 - 503 páginas |
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... soon , therefore , as official duties , attendance on Parliament , or the prosecution of any of his plans of interest or ambition , called his father to town , which was his usual residence for eight months in the year , Edward was ...
... soon , therefore , as official duties , attendance on Parliament , or the prosecution of any of his plans of interest or ambition , called his father to town , which was his usual residence for eight months in the year , Edward was ...
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... soon as curiosity is gratified , the pleasure of conquering the first difficulties exhausted , and the novelty of pursuit at an end . Edward would throw himself with spirit upon any classical author of which his preceptor proposed the ...
... soon as curiosity is gratified , the pleasure of conquering the first difficulties exhausted , and the novelty of pursuit at an end . Edward would throw himself with spirit upon any classical author of which his preceptor proposed the ...
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... soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge , young Waverley drove through the sea of books , like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder . Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading , especially ...
... soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge , young Waverley drove through the sea of books , like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder . Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading , especially ...
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... roads , steep hills , sloughs , and other terrestrial retardations ; but , with tolerable horses and a civil driver ( as the advertisements have it ) , I engage to get as soon as possible into a more picturesque 48 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... roads , steep hills , sloughs , and other terrestrial retardations ; but , with tolerable horses and a civil driver ( as the advertisements have it ) , I engage to get as soon as possible into a more picturesque 48 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... soon dropt into the natural simplicity of his common manner , agitated upon the present occasion by no common feeling . Nephew , " he said ; and then , as mend- ing his phrase , " My dear Edward , it is God's will , and also the will of ...
... soon dropt into the natural simplicity of his common manner , agitated upon the present occasion by no common feeling . Nephew , " he said ; and then , as mend- ing his phrase , " My dear Edward , it is God's will , and also the will of ...
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