Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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... natural impetuosity of the young sol- dier's temper was sometimes apt to overcome these artificial obstacles , and then , like a torrent foam- ing over a wear , it became more furious , as if in revenge for the constrained calm which it ...
... natural impetuosity of the young sol- dier's temper was sometimes apt to overcome these artificial obstacles , and then , like a torrent foam- ing over a wear , it became more furious , as if in revenge for the constrained calm which it ...
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... before he went to sleep , it was impossible he could discern any- thing . He felt , therefore , in spite of his natural courage , that undefined and thrilling species of tremor which attends a sense that danger is near , 66 WOODSTOCK .
... before he went to sleep , it was impossible he could discern any- thing . He felt , therefore , in spite of his natural courage , that undefined and thrilling species of tremor which attends a sense that danger is near , 66 WOODSTOCK .
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... natural occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as perhaps , even in this more sceptical age , there are many fewer complete and absolute infidels on this particular than give themselves out for such ...
... natural occurrences , we have already said he was not absolutely incredulous ; as perhaps , even in this more sceptical age , there are many fewer complete and absolute infidels on this particular than give themselves out for such ...
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... capable of superstitious weakness . Had I been afraid of an apparent and real danger - why such fear is natural to man - and I will not deny that the mood of mind may have happened to me as well as to others WOODSTOCK . 103.
... capable of superstitious weakness . Had I been afraid of an apparent and real danger - why such fear is natural to man - and I will not deny that the mood of mind may have happened to me as well as to others WOODSTOCK . 103.
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... naturally arose out of the part he had played in the world , and the influence which he had exercised over the minds of others . " I was a young man at the Univer- sity of Cambridge , " he said , " when I was par- ticularly bound in ...
... naturally arose out of the part he had played in the world , and the influence which he had exercised over the minds of others . " I was a young man at the Univer- sity of Cambridge , " he said , " when I was par- ticularly bound in ...
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