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... person singular , he proceeds in the second paragraph to make use of the first . But it appears to him that the seeming modesty connected with the former mode of writing is over- balanced by the inconvenience of stiffness and ...
... person singular , he proceeds in the second paragraph to make use of the first . But it appears to him that the seeming modesty connected with the former mode of writing is over- balanced by the inconvenience of stiffness and ...
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... person also , as a successful author in another department of literature , I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the ...
... person also , as a successful author in another department of literature , I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the ...
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... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time I usually qualified my denial by stating that , had I been the author of these ...
... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time I usually qualified my denial by stating that , had I been the author of these ...
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... person whom it principally regarded ; as , among all the rumours that were current , there was only one , and that as unfounded as the others , which had nevertheless some alliance to probability , and indeed might have proved in some ...
... person whom it principally regarded ; as , among all the rumours that were current , there was only one , and that as unfounded as the others , which had nevertheless some alliance to probability , and indeed might have proved in some ...
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... person chanced to evince particular curiosity on such a subject , my brother was likely enough to divert himself ... persons to whom the secret was necessarily entrusted , or communicated by chance , amounted , I should think , to twenty ...
... person chanced to evince particular curiosity on such a subject , my brother was likely enough to divert himself ... persons to whom the secret was necessarily entrusted , or communicated by chance , amounted , I should think , to twenty ...
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