Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceAdam & Charles Black, 1886 - 503 páginas |
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... observed even in children , who cannot endure that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told . But without altering in the slightest degree either the story or the mode of telling ...
... observed even in children , who cannot endure that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told . But without altering in the slightest degree either the story or the mode of telling ...
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... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . * I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . * I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
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... observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the con versation of men . Of literary fame , whether merited or undeserved , I had already as much as might have ...
... observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the con versation of men . Of literary fame , whether merited or undeserved , I had already as much as might have ...
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... observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterized , to speak craniologically , by an extraordinary ...
... observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterized , to speak craniologically , by an extraordinary ...
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... observed their trust , until the derangement of the affairs of my publishers , Messrs . Con- stable and Co. , and the exposure of their account books , which was the necessary consequence , rendered secrecy no longer possible . The ...
... observed their trust , until the derangement of the affairs of my publishers , Messrs . Con- stable and Co. , and the exposure of their account books , which was the necessary consequence , rendered secrecy no longer possible . The ...
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