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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... daughter , and to our children , that are his grandchildren , that we should let your brother's children perish , or come to be a charge to the public , in the very place where your family once flourished . Come , say no more : I will ...
... daughter , and to our children , that are his grandchildren , that we should let your brother's children perish , or come to be a charge to the public , in the very place where your family once flourished . Come , say no more : I will ...
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... daughter , and we had it nursed , and Amy came again in about half a year to live with her old mistress ; but neither my gentleman , or Amy either , cared for playing that game over again ; for as he said , the jade might bring him a ...
... daughter , and we had it nursed , and Amy came again in about half a year to live with her old mistress ; but neither my gentleman , or Amy either , cared for playing that game over again ; for as he said , the jade might bring him a ...
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... daughter or a wife , of whom it might be said that he had a just concern in their instruc- tion or improvement , it had been an admirable step ; but all this to a whore ; to one who he carried with him upon no account that could be ...
... daughter or a wife , of whom it might be said that he had a just concern in their instruc- tion or improvement , it had been an admirable step ; but all this to a whore ; to one who he carried with him upon no account that could be ...
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... daughters ; the second was a son , the fourth a daughter , and the youngest a son . To finish the melancholy part of this history of my two unhappy girls , she brought me word that as soon as they were able to go out and get any work ...
... daughters ; the second was a son , the fourth a daughter , and the youngest a son . To finish the melancholy part of this history of my two unhappy girls , she brought me word that as soon as they were able to go out and get any work ...
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... DAUGHTER AND ELDEST SON DEAD . 167 who , as in the beginning of my story I observed , made them be entertained , and caused the youngest to be fetched from the town where we lived , and where the parish officers had taken care of him ...
... DAUGHTER AND ELDEST SON DEAD . 167 who , as in the beginning of my story I observed , made them be entertained , and caused the youngest to be fetched from the town where we lived , and where the parish officers had taken care of him ...
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