Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2A. Constable and Company, 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 118
... cause by the great National League and Covenant , surely I would be more open . Sit we down , therefore , and let me ... causes , speedy death - I know not if it be true ; but if so , I only depart 118 WOODSTOCK .
... cause by the great National League and Covenant , surely I would be more open . Sit we down , therefore , and let me ... causes , speedy death - I know not if it be true ; but if so , I only depart 118 WOODSTOCK .
Page 121
... cause of the poor oppressed people , whose tender consciences rejected the rites and ceremonies more befitting a papistical than a reformed Church , and which , according to the blinded policy of the Court , were enforced by pains and ...
... cause of the poor oppressed people , whose tender consciences rejected the rites and ceremonies more befitting a papistical than a reformed Church , and which , according to the blinded policy of the Court , were enforced by pains and ...
Page 161
... causes for gaiety , Alice Lee had the pleasing feeling that she was restored to the habitation and the haunts of her childhood , from which she had not departed without much pain , the more felt , perhaps , because suppressed , in order ...
... causes for gaiety , Alice Lee had the pleasing feeling that she was restored to the habitation and the haunts of her childhood , from which she had not departed without much pain , the more felt , perhaps , because suppressed , in order ...
Page 163
... cause , therefore , for apprehension . Yet the terrors of the times were so great , that Alice did not even see a stranger of her own sex without some apprehension . Denaturalized wo- men had as usual followed the camps of both armies ...
... cause , therefore , for apprehension . Yet the terrors of the times were so great , that Alice did not even see a stranger of her own sex without some apprehension . Denaturalized wo- men had as usual followed the camps of both armies ...
Page 164
... cause . Alice walked , therefore , gravely on toward the fount , and composed her looks as she took a hasty glance of the female who was seated there , and addressed herself to her task of filling her pit- cher . The woman , whose ...
... cause . Alice walked , therefore , gravely on toward the fount , and composed her looks as she took a hasty glance of the female who was seated there , and addressed herself to her task of filling her pit- cher . The woman , whose ...
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