Waverley, Or, 'tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes, Volumen 1 |
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which I conceive no one had a right to force from me , since I alone was
concerned in the matter . The alternative of rendering a doubtful answer must
have left me open to the degrading suspicion that I was not unwilling to assume
the merit ( if ...
which I conceive no one had a right to force from me , since I alone was
concerned in the matter . The alternative of rendering a doubtful answer must
have left me open to the degrading suspicion that I was not unwilling to assume
the merit ( if ...
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It may be mentioned , that while the paternity of these novels was from time to
time warmly disputed in Britain , the foreign booksellers expressed no hesitation
on the matter , but affixed my name to the whole of the novels , and to some
besides ...
It may be mentioned , that while the paternity of these novels was from time to
time warmly disputed in Britain , the foreign booksellers expressed no hesitation
on the matter , but affixed my name to the whole of the novels , and to some
besides ...
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I was therefore desirous rather to exceed in the portion of new and explanatory
matter which is added to this edition , than that the reader should have reason to
complain that the information communicated was of a general and merely
nominal ...
I was therefore desirous rather to exceed in the portion of new and explanatory
matter which is added to this edition , than that the reader should have reason to
complain that the information communicated was of a general and merely
nominal ...
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Much pithy matter , concerning the bringing the bride to bed - the loosing the
bridegroom's points - the scramble which ensued for them - and the casting of the
stocking , is also omitted , from its obscurity . The following song , which has been
...
Much pithy matter , concerning the bringing the bride to bed - the loosing the
bridegroom's points - the scramble which ensued for them - and the casting of the
stocking , is also omitted , from its obscurity . The following song , which has been
...
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Now this company or regiment , as a matter of course , was engaged in weekly
warfare with the boys inhabiting the Cross - causeway , Bristostreet , the Potter -
row , -in short , the neighbouring suburbs . These last were chiefly of the lower
rank ...
Now this company or regiment , as a matter of course , was engaged in weekly
warfare with the boys inhabiting the Cross - causeway , Bristostreet , the Potter -
row , -in short , the neighbouring suburbs . These last were chiefly of the lower
rank ...
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