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This respectable , but least numerous part of the audience , were such decent
persons as had adopted the Presbyterian form of faith , renouncing the liturgy
and hierarchy of the Church of England , and living under the tuition of the Rev .
This respectable , but least numerous part of the audience , were such decent
persons as had adopted the Presbyterian form of faith , renouncing the liturgy
and hierarchy of the Church of England , and living under the tuition of the Rev .
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... was cut as short as shears could perform the feat , and covered with a black
silk skullcap , which stuck so close to his head , that the two ears expanded from
under it as if they had been intended as handles by which to lift the whole person
.
... was cut as short as shears could perform the feat , and covered with a black
silk skullcap , which stuck so close to his head , that the two ears expanded from
under it as if they had been intended as handles by which to lift the whole person
.
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It was not long afterwards when he beheld two persons , a male and a female ,
approaching slowly , and so deeply engaged in their own conversation , that they
did not raise their eyes to observe that there stood a stranger in the path before ...
It was not long afterwards when he beheld two persons , a male and a female ,
approaching slowly , and so deeply engaged in their own conversation , that they
did not raise their eyes to observe that there stood a stranger in the path before ...
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... with a person so delicately made , and so beautiful in countenance , that it
seemed the earth on which she walked was too grossly massive a support for a
creature so aerial . But mortal beauty must share human sorrows . The eyes of
the ...
... with a person so delicately made , and so beautiful in countenance , that it
seemed the earth on which she walked was too grossly massive a support for a
creature so aerial . But mortal beauty must share human sorrows . The eyes of
the ...
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Sir Henry Lee remained still confused , and una . ble to answer , when there
arrived a fourth person , whom the cries of Alice had summoned to the spot . This
was Joceline Joliffe , one of the under - keepers of the walk , who , seeing how ...
Sir Henry Lee remained still confused , and una . ble to answer , when there
arrived a fourth person , whom the cries of Alice had summoned to the spot . This
was Joceline Joliffe , one of the under - keepers of the walk , who , seeing how ...
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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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