Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes..James Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - 371 páginas |
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... father usu- ally wrote to him with the pompous affec- tation of one who was too much oppressed by public affairs to find leisure to attend to those of his own family . Now and then he mentioned persons of rank in Scotland to whom he ...
... father usu- ally wrote to him with the pompous affec- tation of one who was too much oppressed by public affairs to find leisure to attend to those of his own family . Now and then he mentioned persons of rank in Scotland to whom he ...
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... stance of the injustice of the existing go- vernment . It was true , he said , and he must not disguise it even from Edward , that his father could not have sustained such an insult as was now , for the first time 32 WAVERLEY .
... stance of the injustice of the existing go- vernment . It was true , he said , and he must not disguise it even from Edward , that his father could not have sustained such an insult as was now , for the first time 32 WAVERLEY .
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... father had been stigmatized . He requested his né- phew therefore to take the fittest , and , at the same time , the most speedy opportu- nity , of transmitting his resignation to the War Office , and hinted , moreover , that little ...
... father had been stigmatized . He requested his né- phew therefore to take the fittest , and , at the same time , the most speedy opportu- nity , of transmitting his resignation to the War Office , and hinted , moreover , that little ...
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... father . He sent multitudinous greetings to the Baron of Bradwardine . A letter from aunt Rachael spoke out even more plainly . She considered the disgrace of brother Richard as the just reward of his forfeiting his allegiance to a ...
... father . He sent multitudinous greetings to the Baron of Bradwardine . A letter from aunt Rachael spoke out even more plainly . She considered the disgrace of brother Richard as the just reward of his forfeiting his allegiance to a ...
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... father's supposed wrongs . Of the real cause of his disgrace , Edward was totally ignorant ; nor had his habits at all led him to investigate the politics of the period in which he lived , or remark the intrigues in which his father had ...
... father's supposed wrongs . Of the real cause of his disgrace , Edward was totally ignorant ; nor had his habits at all led him to investigate the politics of the period in which he lived , or remark the intrigues in which his father had ...
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