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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... kind , though some of them have met with a very good reception in the world . I say , it differs from them in this great and essential article , namely , that the foundation of this is laid in truth of fact ; and so the work is not a ...
... kind , though some of them have met with a very good reception in the world . I say , it differs from them in this great and essential article , namely , that the foundation of this is laid in truth of fact ; and so the work is not a ...
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... kind , that I am obliged to say , No fool , ladies , at all , no kind of fool , whether a mad fool or a sober fool , a wise fool or a silly fool ; take anything but a fool ; nay , be anything , be even an old maid , the worst of ...
... kind , that I am obliged to say , No fool , ladies , at all , no kind of fool , whether a mad fool or a sober fool , a wise fool or a silly fool ; take anything but a fool ; nay , be anything , be even an old maid , the worst of ...
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... kind , as , indeed , he had not much in anything he ever said , so I thought they were but words of course now . When he had said he would be gone , I used to wish secretly , and even say in my thoughts , I wish you would , for if you ...
... kind , as , indeed , he had not much in anything he ever said , so I thought they were but words of course now . When he had said he would be gone , I used to wish secretly , and even say in my thoughts , I wish you would , for if you ...
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... kind of a dependent upon our family , and who I had often , among the rest of the relations , been very kind to ; my maid put it into my head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether she might not be able to help in ...
... kind of a dependent upon our family , and who I had often , among the rest of the relations , been very kind to ; my maid put it into my head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether she might not be able to help in ...
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... kind , poor creature ; for though her design was perfectly good and cha- ritable , yet there was not one word of it true in fact : for I was not turned out of doors by the landlord , nor gone dis- tracted . It was true , indeed , that ...
... kind , poor creature ; for though her design was perfectly good and cha- ritable , yet there was not one word of it true in fact : for I was not turned out of doors by the landlord , nor gone dis- tracted . It was true , indeed , that ...
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