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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... give my own character , I must be excused to give it as impartially as possible , and as if I was speaking of another body ; and the sequel will lead you to judge whether I flatter myself or no . I was ( speaking of myself at about ...
... give my own character , I must be excused to give it as impartially as possible , and as if I was speaking of another body ; and the sequel will lead you to judge whether I flatter myself or no . I was ( speaking of myself at about ...
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... gives to the poor lends to the Lord ; let us lend our heavenly Father a little of our children's bread , as you call it ... give them nothing . Won't you ? says he ; but I will . Remember that dreadful Scripture is directly against us ...
... gives to the poor lends to the Lord ; let us lend our heavenly Father a little of our children's bread , as you call it ... give them nothing . Won't you ? says he ; but I will . Remember that dreadful Scripture is directly against us ...
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... give me leave to live rent tree in the house a whole year But now he put on the face , not of a man of compassion only , but of a man of friendship and kindness , and this was so unexpected that it was surprising . We chatted together ...
... give me leave to live rent tree in the house a whole year But now he put on the face , not of a man of compassion only , but of a man of friendship and kindness , and this was so unexpected that it was surprising . We chatted together ...
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... give me much more than he is able to give me , or do for me . Why madam , says Amy , I don't say I will go and ask him ; but I say , if he should promise to do so and so for you , and the condition was such that he would not serve you ...
... give me much more than he is able to give me , or do for me . Why madam , says Amy , I don't say I will go and ask him ; but I say , if he should promise to do so and so for you , and the condition was such that he would not serve you ...
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... give him leave . I told him he ought not to ask me leave , who had so much right to make himself welcome ; so the house began to look in some tolerable figure , and clean ; the garden also , in about a fortnight's work , began to look ...
... give him leave . I told him he ought not to ask me leave , who had so much right to make himself welcome ; so the house began to look in some tolerable figure , and clean ; the garden also , in about a fortnight's work , began to look ...
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