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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... mean time , the advantages of the present work are so great , and the virtuous reader has room for so much improvement , that we make no question the story , however meanly told , will find a passage to his best hours , and be read both ...
... mean time , the advantages of the present work are so great , and the virtuous reader has room for so much improvement , that we make no question the story , however meanly told , will find a passage to his best hours , and be read both ...
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... mean tears , for , relating to her how I was re- ceived by the other of my husband's relations , it made me burst into tears , and I cried vehemently for a great while together , till I made the good old gentlewoman cry too several ...
... mean tears , for , relating to her how I was re- ceived by the other of my husband's relations , it made me burst into tears , and I cried vehemently for a great while together , till I made the good old gentlewoman cry too several ...
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... mean too late ? says the mistress ; what ! have you been concerned in this affair then ? what ! have you helped bring this family slur upon us ? I hope you do not think such a thing of me , madam , says the poor woman , but I went this ...
... mean too late ? says the mistress ; what ! have you been concerned in this affair then ? what ! have you helped bring this family slur upon us ? I hope you do not think such a thing of me , madam , says the poor woman , but I went this ...
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... means to keep four poor little creatures from beggary and starving , or else it would be very hard ; we are none of us in so bad circumstances , but we are able to spare a mite for the fatherless . Don't shut up your bowels of ...
... means to keep four poor little creatures from beggary and starving , or else it would be very hard ; we are none of us in so bad circumstances , but we are able to spare a mite for the fatherless . Don't shut up your bowels of ...
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... mean time , to see if he could , for the future , put me into a way to support myself . While he found me change colour , and look surprised at his discourse , for so I did to be sure , he turns to my maid Amy , and looking at her , he ...
... mean time , to see if he could , for the future , put me into a way to support myself . While he found me change colour , and look surprised at his discourse , for so I did to be sure , he turns to my maid Amy , and looking at her , he ...
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