Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... French brandy , paper , and other goods ; and these selling very much to advantage here , my father was in very good circumstances at his coming over , so that he was far from applying to the rest of our nation that were here for ...
... French brandy , paper , and other goods ; and these selling very much to advantage here , my father was in very good circumstances at his coming over , so that he was far from applying to the rest of our nation that were here for ...
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... French but the speech ; nor did I so much as keep any remains of the French language tagged to my way of speaking , as most foreigners do , but spoke what we call natural English , as if I had been born here . Being to give my own ...
... French but the speech ; nor did I so much as keep any remains of the French language tagged to my way of speaking , as most foreigners do , but spoke what we call natural English , as if I had been born here . Being to give my own ...
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... French , 25,000 livres , that is to say , two thousand pounds portion , and married me to an eminent brewer in the city . Pardon me if I conceal his name , for though he was the foundation of my ruin , I cannot take so severe a revenge ...
... French , 25,000 livres , that is to say , two thousand pounds portion , and married me to an eminent brewer in the city . Pardon me if I conceal his name , for though he was the foundation of my ruin , I cannot take so severe a revenge ...
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... French horn , as he called it , which was his usual signal to call his men to go out a hunting . It was about the latter end of August , and so was light yet at five o'clock , and it was about that time that I heard him and his two men ...
... French horn , as he called it , which was his usual signal to call his men to go out a hunting . It was about the latter end of August , and so was light yet at five o'clock , and it was about that time that I heard him and his two men ...
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... French horn , in the stable , and his hunting - saddle , went away in a hand- some furniture , as they call it , which he used sometimes to travel with , having an embroidered housing , a pistols , and other things belonging to them ...
... French horn , in the stable , and his hunting - saddle , went away in a hand- some furniture , as they call it , which he used sometimes to travel with , having an embroidered housing , a pistols , and other things belonging to them ...
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