Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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... military license ; and as the verses are little known , and contain some good sense , we venture to insert them . THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL . Now , gentle readers , I have let you ken My very thoughts , from heart and pen ...
... military license ; and as the verses are little known , and contain some good sense , we venture to insert them . THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL . Now , gentle readers , I have let you ken My very thoughts , from heart and pen ...
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... military record ; and , calling up all his feelings of family grandeur and warlike glory , he concluded , with logic something like Falstaff's , that when war was at hand , although it were shame to be on any side but one , it were ...
... military record ; and , calling up all his feelings of family grandeur and warlike glory , he concluded , with logic something like Falstaff's , that when war was at hand , although it were shame to be on any side but one , it were ...
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... military education proceeded . Already a good horseman , he was now initiated into the arts of the manege , which , when carried to perfection , almost realize the fable of the Centaur , the guidance of the horse appearing to proceed ...
... military education proceeded . Already a good horseman , he was now initiated into the arts of the manege , which , when carried to perfection , almost realize the fable of the Centaur , the guidance of the horse appearing to proceed ...
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... military duty beneath his notice , or con- ceiting himself to be born a general , because he made an indif- ferent subaltern . The truth was , that the vague and unsatisfactory course of reading which he had pursued , working upon a ...
... military duty beneath his notice , or con- ceiting himself to be born a general , because he made an indif- ferent subaltern . The truth was , that the vague and unsatisfactory course of reading which he had pursued , working upon a ...
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... of high treason in 1715 , he had lived in retirement , conversing almost entirely with those of his own principles in the vicinage . The pedantry of the lawyer , superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier , might WAVERLEY . 143.
... of high treason in 1715 , he had lived in retirement , conversing almost entirely with those of his own principles in the vicinage . The pedantry of the lawyer , superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier , might WAVERLEY . 143.
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