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Page 29
His book was the closet - companion of my blessed master , ” said Sir Henry Lee ;
“ after the Bible , ( with reverence for naming them together , he felt more comfort
in it than any other ; and as I have shared his disease , why it is natural I should ...
His book was the closet - companion of my blessed master , ” said Sir Henry Lee ;
“ after the Bible , ( with reverence for naming them together , he felt more comfort
in it than any other ; and as I have shared his disease , why it is natural I should ...
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the scarlet garter fastened the light blue hose , I think some feeling , resembling
either natural sociality , or old use and wont , would get the better , friend , even of
thy gravity , and thou would ' st fling thy cuckoldy steeple - hat one way , and that
...
the scarlet garter fastened the light blue hose , I think some feeling , resembling
either natural sociality , or old use and wont , would get the better , friend , even of
thy gravity , and thou would ' st fling thy cuckoldy steeple - hat one way , and that
...
Page 68
... and others have called the code of chivalrous honour . Not my own natural
disposition , but the better doctrine which my creed has taught , enables me to
bear your harsh revilings without answering in a similar tone of wrath and
reproach .
... and others have called the code of chivalrous honour . Not my own natural
disposition , but the better doctrine which my creed has taught , enables me to
bear your harsh revilings without answering in a similar tone of wrath and
reproach .
Page 69
So soon as he was departed , Alice , who had been during the whole scene in
the utmost terror that her father might have been hurried , by his natural heat of
temper , from violence of language into violence of action , sunk down upon a
settle ...
So soon as he was departed , Alice , who had been during the whole scene in
the utmost terror that her father might have been hurried , by his natural heat of
temper , from violence of language into violence of action , sunk down upon a
settle ...
Page 91
... Consul , or Lieutenant - General of Great Britain and Ireland , a prospect of
demesne and residencies becoming his dignity . Then he naturally passed to the
disparking and destroying of the royal residences of England , made a woful
picture ...
... Consul , or Lieutenant - General of Great Britain and Ireland , a prospect of
demesne and residencies becoming his dignity . Then he naturally passed to the
disparking and destroying of the royal residences of England , made a woful
picture ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...
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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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