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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... hands of my elder brother , who , running on too rashly in his adven- tures as a merchant , failed , and lost not ... hand , for want of the clerk's care to secure him , and the like ; but he thrust me by , either with hard words , or ...
... hands of my elder brother , who , running on too rashly in his adven- tures as a merchant , failed , and lost not ... hand , for want of the clerk's care to secure him , and the like ; but he thrust me by , either with hard words , or ...
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... hand to the gaining one shilling towards lessening our distress ; he neither had the capacity or the inclination ; he could have been no clerk , for he scarce wrote a legible hand ; he was so far from being able to write sense , that he ...
... hand to the gaining one shilling towards lessening our distress ; he neither had the capacity or the inclination ; he could have been no clerk , for he scarce wrote a legible hand ; he was so far from being able to write sense , that he ...
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... hand- some furniture , as they call it , which he used sometimes to travel with , having an embroidered housing , a pistols , and other things belonging to them ; and one of his servants had another saddle with pistols , though plain ...
... hand- some furniture , as they call it , which he used sometimes to travel with , having an embroidered housing , a pistols , and other things belonging to them ; and one of his servants had another saddle with pistols , though plain ...
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... hand , and I'll bring the rest ; so she gives her the least , and the wench goes in mighty innocently , with the little one in her hand , upon which Amy turns the rest in after her , shuts the door softly , and marches off as fast as ...
... hand , and I'll bring the rest ; so she gives her the least , and the wench goes in mighty innocently , with the little one in her hand , upon which Amy turns the rest in after her , shuts the door softly , and marches off as fast as ...
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... hand , he came to me and kissed me , which I was , I confess , a little surprised at , but more at what followed ; for he told me , that as the sad condition which I was reduced to had made him pity me , so my conduct in it , and the ...
... hand , he came to me and kissed me , which I was , I confess , a little surprised at , but more at what followed ; for he told me , that as the sad condition which I was reduced to had made him pity me , so my conduct in it , and the ...
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