Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry, 1839 - 436 páginas |
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... CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . THE title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent . Even its first , or general denomination , was the result of no common ...
... CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY . THE title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent . Even its first , or general denomination , was the result of no common ...
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... chapter to the public . Some favourable ' Alas ! that attire , respectable and gentlemanlike in 1805 , or thereabouts , is now as antiquated as the Author of Waverley has himself become since that period ! The reader of fashion will ...
... chapter to the public . Some favourable ' Alas ! that attire , respectable and gentlemanlike in 1805 , or thereabouts , is now as antiquated as the Author of Waverley has himself become since that period ! The reader of fashion will ...
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... CHAPTER II . WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . IT is , then , sixty years since Edward Waverley , the hero of the following pages , took leave of his family , to join the regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a ...
... CHAPTER II . WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . IT is , then , sixty years since Edward Waverley , the hero of the following pages , took leave of his family , to join the regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a ...
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... chapter . CHAPTER III . EDUCATION . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was sup- posed to suffer ( which is quite the same thing ) , by the air of ...
... chapter . CHAPTER III . EDUCATION . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was sup- posed to suffer ( which is quite the same thing ) , by the air of ...
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... CHAPTER IV . CASTLE - BUILDING . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
... CHAPTER IV . CASTLE - BUILDING . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
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