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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... reason to question the truth of that part also . In the manner she has told the story , it is evident she does not insist upon her justification in any one part of it ; much less does she recommend her conduct , or , indeed , any part ...
... reason to question the truth of that part also . In the manner she has told the story , it is evident she does not insist upon her justification in any one part of it ; much less does she recommend her conduct , or , indeed , any part ...
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... reason , he would do it so weakly , so emptily , and so nothing to the purpose , that it was enough to make anybody that heard him sick and ashamed of him . Secondly , he was positive and obstinate , and the most positive in the most ...
... reason , he would do it so weakly , so emptily , and so nothing to the purpose , that it was enough to make anybody that heard him sick and ashamed of him . Secondly , he was positive and obstinate , and the most positive in the most ...
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... reason to be merry , seeing he had been so kind to me , and had given me hopes of recovering me from the worst circumstances that ever woman of any sort of fortune was sunk into ; that he could not but believe that what he had said to ...
... reason to be merry , seeing he had been so kind to me , and had given me hopes of recovering me from the worst circumstances that ever woman of any sort of fortune was sunk into ; that he could not but believe that what he had said to ...
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... reason to believe him , that he was full master of the whole house and of me , as far as was within the bounds we had spoken of , which I believed he would not break , and asked him if he would not lodge there that night . He said he ...
... reason to believe him , that he was full master of the whole house and of me , as far as was within the bounds we had spoken of , which I believed he would not break , and asked him if he would not lodge there that night . He said he ...
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... reason not been overcome by the powerful attraction of so kind , so beneficent a friend : had I consulted conscience and virtue , I should have repelled this Amy , however faithful and honest to me in other things , as a viper , and ...
... reason not been overcome by the powerful attraction of so kind , so beneficent a friend : had I consulted conscience and virtue , I should have repelled this Amy , however faithful and honest to me in other things , as a viper , and ...
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