Sir Walter Scott: the Story of His LifeJ. R. Osgood, 1871 - 488 páginas During his reunion with Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver tells of his quest to recover the remaining treasure from Treasure Island. |
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... received his education only by fits and starts , and had no chance of fair competition with boys of his own age and standing . Thus he was backward in the routine of his school - studies , even while he was storing his mind with varied ...
... received his education only by fits and starts , and had no chance of fair competition with boys of his own age and standing . Thus he was backward in the routine of his school - studies , even while he was storing his mind with varied ...
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... received the younger sons . Scott's father was the first who had condescended to become a lawyer . If Scott himself had not been lame from infancy , he would almost certainly have become a soldier . His tastes , wishes , and feelings ...
... received the younger sons . Scott's father was the first who had condescended to become a lawyer . If Scott himself had not been lame from infancy , he would almost certainly have become a soldier . His tastes , wishes , and feelings ...
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... received as compensation for his writings a sum much larger , in the aggregate , than , up to that time , had ever been paid for literary labor , - a greater amount , I believe , than even Mr. Dickens obtained during his remarkable ...
... received as compensation for his writings a sum much larger , in the aggregate , than , up to that time , had ever been paid for literary labor , - a greater amount , I believe , than even Mr. Dickens obtained during his remarkable ...
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... received , as became the daughter of an eminently learned physician , the best education then bestowed upon young gentlewomen in Scotland . Four sons and two daughters , born to this " comfor- table couple " between 1759 and 1766 ...
... received , as became the daughter of an eminently learned physician , the best education then bestowed upon young gentlewomen in Scotland . Four sons and two daughters , born to this " comfor- table couple " between 1759 and 1766 ...
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... for sea- bathing . There , the scene of a noted conflict be- tween the Stuart and the English forces in 1745 , in which Col. Gardiner received his death - wound , he ÆT . 7. ] AT PRESTON - PANS . 99 26 [ 1778 SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... for sea- bathing . There , the scene of a noted conflict be- tween the Stuart and the English forces in 1745 , in which Col. Gardiner received his death - wound , he ÆT . 7. ] AT PRESTON - PANS . 99 26 [ 1778 SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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