Our Island: Comprising Forgery, a Tale; and The Lunatic, a Tale ...E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 |
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... follow him to his home in Bedfordshire , clothed with his hardly - earned degree , and impatient to gain his father's consent to a tour on the continent . At this critical season , however , Mr. Mortimer died . This accident happened ...
... follow him to his home in Bedfordshire , clothed with his hardly - earned degree , and impatient to gain his father's consent to a tour on the continent . At this critical season , however , Mr. Mortimer died . This accident happened ...
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... follow always , Mary , " said her brother , " that because a person is so lucky as to be rich , she must be proud and disdainful of every body who has not quite so much ; and I assure you , that as far as I have noticed Mrs. Hamilton ...
... follow always , Mary , " said her brother , " that because a person is so lucky as to be rich , she must be proud and disdainful of every body who has not quite so much ; and I assure you , that as far as I have noticed Mrs. Hamilton ...
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... follow their father's footsteps in his early days , for- got not his precepts ( such is the force of habit ) to the last moment of their lives . As they proceeded on their varied career , the ancient principle would often waken in their ...
... follow their father's footsteps in his early days , for- got not his precepts ( such is the force of habit ) to the last moment of their lives . As they proceeded on their varied career , the ancient principle would often waken in their ...
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... follow her to the room where she was to meet the person who had summoned her from her friends . But the first emotion which she felt was one of pain and displeasure , when she beheld Mr. Priminheere , her daughter's rejected suitor ...
... follow her to the room where she was to meet the person who had summoned her from her friends . But the first emotion which she felt was one of pain and displeasure , when she beheld Mr. Priminheere , her daughter's rejected suitor ...
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... follow- ed these acclamations . Mortimer then rose , and deli- vered an harangue in the most guarded terms , and ac- cording to the especial direction of his adviser . Sea- soned with appeals to popular feeling , and general de ...
... follow- ed these acclamations . Mortimer then rose , and deli- vered an harangue in the most guarded terms , and ac- cording to the especial direction of his adviser . Sea- soned with appeals to popular feeling , and general de ...
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Our Island– Comprising Forgery, a Tale ; and The Lunatic, a Tale, 1 tomas Humphry William Woolrych Visos knygos peržiūra - 1833 |
Our Island– Comprising Forgery : a Tale and The Lunatic : a Tale Humphry William Woolrych Visos knygos peržiūra - 1832 |
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