Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen12William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1845 |
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... become a sort of proverbial phrase , to those who use it , -though its origin is com- pletely lost , when a northern Highlander would ex- press the deepest sense of unexpected deliverance from the extremity of his worst evils , hunger ...
... become a sort of proverbial phrase , to those who use it , -though its origin is com- pletely lost , when a northern Highlander would ex- press the deepest sense of unexpected deliverance from the extremity of his worst evils , hunger ...
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... become . And Mr Bradshaw had , at all events , even then , too much sterling sturdy pride and English good - sense , to be ambitious of a noble alliance for his heiress , though he might have suspected his daugh- ter herself of such a ...
... become . And Mr Bradshaw had , at all events , even then , too much sterling sturdy pride and English good - sense , to be ambitious of a noble alliance for his heiress , though he might have suspected his daugh- ter herself of such a ...
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... become master of that conventional politeness , and therefore am always embarrassed in company with strangers . My fel- low passenger possessed this in perfection , and seemed to exert himself to make me forget my want of the same . On ...
... become master of that conventional politeness , and therefore am always embarrassed in company with strangers . My fel- low passenger possessed this in perfection , and seemed to exert himself to make me forget my want of the same . On ...
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... become that which , in secret , we have planned . " " It will be no disappointment to him , " said John Hardy ... becoming an inmate under its hospitable roof ; and although he had , more than a thousand times , during this inter- val ...
... become that which , in secret , we have planned . " " It will be no disappointment to him , " said John Hardy ... becoming an inmate under its hospitable roof ; and although he had , more than a thousand times , during this inter- val ...
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... become hardened and careless of life , or seek to console themselves amidst its count- less miseries , by the fair delusions of superstition ? Nor , as we afterwards discovered , are such mat- ters at all better conducted in the country ...
... become hardened and careless of life , or seek to console themselves amidst its count- less miseries , by the fair delusions of superstition ? Nor , as we afterwards discovered , are such mat- ters at all better conducted in the country ...
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Página 198 - ... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes' of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course.
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