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... who read the Bi . ble to such purpose , that he never lacked a text to justify a
murder - - d - n him too . Bletson - a trueblue commonwealth ' s man , one of
Harrrison ' s Rota Club , with his noddle full of new - fangled notions about
government ...
... who read the Bi . ble to such purpose , that he never lacked a text to justify a
murder - - d - n him too . Bletson - a trueblue commonwealth ' s man , one of
Harrrison ' s Rota Club , with his noddle full of new - fangled notions about
government ...
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Never mind ; d - - n Bletson too . " “ Friend , ” said the soldier , “ I would willingly
be civil , but it consists not with my duty to hear these godly men , in whose
service I am , spoken of after this irreverent and unbecoming fashion . And albeit I
know ...
Never mind ; d - - n Bletson too . " “ Friend , ” said the soldier , “ I would willingly
be civil , but it consists not with my duty to hear these godly men , in whose
service I am , spoken of after this irreverent and unbecoming fashion . And albeit I
know ...
Page 136
... the bloody and devouring bear Harrison , or the cold and poisonous snake
Bletson - - all of whom are now at the Lodge , doing license and taking spoil as
they think meet ; and , as all men say , the devil has come to make a fourth with
them .
... the bloody and devouring bear Harrison , or the cold and poisonous snake
Bletson - - all of whom are now at the Lodge , doing license and taking spoil as
they think meet ; and , as all men say , the devil has come to make a fourth with
them .
Page 139
But there is Bletson , on the other hand , who believes nothing . What do you
know of this matter , good Master Mayor ? ” “ In sooth , and it was Master Bletson
who gave the first alarm , ” replied the magistrate , “ or , at least , the first distinct
one .
But there is Bletson , on the other hand , who believes nothing . What do you
know of this matter , good Master Mayor ? ” “ In sooth , and it was Master Bletson
who gave the first alarm , ” replied the magistrate , “ or , at least , the first distinct
one .
Page 141
However , we conveyed Master Bletson , as in duty bound , back to the Lodge ,
and he was ever maundering by the way how that he met a party of scarlet devils
incarnate marching down to the Lodge ; but , to my poor thinking , it must have ...
However , we conveyed Master Bletson , as in duty bound , back to the Lodge ,
and he was ever maundering by the way how that he met a party of scarlet devils
incarnate marching down to the Lodge ; but , to my poor thinking , it must have ...
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| Title | Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one Volume 1 of Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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