Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBlack, 1911 - 503 páginas |
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... less shining . Youth is an inspiration in itself , and opportunity creates heroes . The Stuarts were a race very de- pendent on circumstance , and circumstance favouring , the best of them did well . Prince Charles Edward had all their ...
... less shining . Youth is an inspiration in itself , and opportunity creates heroes . The Stuarts were a race very de- pendent on circumstance , and circumstance favouring , the best of them did well . Prince Charles Edward had all their ...
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... less forcible for more appropriate epithets slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an Artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an Artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
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... 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 achievements ...
... 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 achievements ...
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... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , besides containing a most ...
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , besides containing a most ...
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... interrupt my progress , I might reasonably expect to succeed according to the greater or less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail General Preface 7.
... interrupt my progress , I might reasonably expect to succeed according to the greater or less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail General Preface 7.
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