Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBlack, 1911 - 503 páginas |
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... mind , and of the fair and manifold intellectual heritage that was his , in the day before the railway , the great romance - destroyer , had reached Scotland , and before the Bodach - glas or the Bodach - an - dun had vanished from the ...
... mind , and of the fair and manifold intellectual heritage that was his , in the day before the railway , the great romance - destroyer , had reached Scotland , and before the Bodach - glas or the Bodach - an - dun had vanished from the ...
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... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new contest for reputation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any con- siderable chance of acquiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those ...
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new contest for reputation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any con- siderable chance of acquiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those ...
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... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
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... mind to exhibit himself in public , after his recent disaster : but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
... mind to exhibit himself in public , after his recent disaster : but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
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... mind was wandering , answered her in soothing terms , and finally prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting - hall . Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell , now divested of his armour ...
... mind was wandering , answered her in soothing terms , and finally prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting - hall . Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell , now divested of his armour ...
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