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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... England by my parents , who fled for their religion about the year 1683 , when the protestants were banished from France by the cruelty of their persecutors . I , who knew little or nothing of what I was brought over hither for , was ...
... England by my parents , who fled for their religion about the year 1683 , when the protestants were banished from France by the cruelty of their persecutors . I , who knew little or nothing of what I was brought over hither for , was ...
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... England , and how they fell readily into business , being , by the charitable assistance of the people in London , encouraged to work in their manufactories in Spitalfields , Canterbury , and other places , and that they had a much ...
... England , and how they fell readily into business , being , by the charitable assistance of the people in London , encouraged to work in their manufactories in Spitalfields , Canterbury , and other places , and that they had a much ...
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... England , but pretended to be surprised , and ex- claim against him for so base an action ; and that I had good friends in Poictou , where I was born , who would take care to have justice done me in England out of his estate . I should ...
... England , but pretended to be surprised , and ex- claim against him for so base an action ; and that I had good friends in Poictou , where I was born , who would take care to have justice done me in England out of his estate . I should ...
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... England well satisfied that he had gotten the unaccepted bill of exchange , which was for two thousand five hundred pounds , with some other things , which together amounted to seventeen thousand livres ; and thus I got rid of him . 9 I ...
... England well satisfied that he had gotten the unaccepted bill of exchange , which was for two thousand five hundred pounds , with some other things , which together amounted to seventeen thousand livres ; and thus I got rid of him . 9 I ...
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... England , to look after my husband's effects there , which I was told were considerable ; but that I did not know what justice a poor stranger would get among them ; and as for Paris , my fortune being so impaired , I saw nothing before ...
... England , to look after my husband's effects there , which I was told were considerable ; but that I did not know what justice a poor stranger would get among them ; and as for Paris , my fortune being so impaired , I saw nothing before ...
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