The Waverley Novels: The fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak

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J. B. Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1855
 

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Страница 55 - He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge; sagacious in many individual cases, without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to maintain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that and of himself to the most unworthy favourites ; a big and bold...
Страница 282 - Ye need not sigh sae deeply, for it is very true — there is as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
Страница 6 - For similar reasons, it may be in like manner said that the most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and wild manners of a barbarous age are just becoming innovated upon and contrasted by the illumination of increased or revived learning, and the instructions of renewed or reformed reb'gion.
Страница 15 - I was in my better mood than the dog in a wheel, condemned to go round and round for hours, is like the same dog merrily chasing his own tail, and gambolling in all the frolic of unrestrained freedom.
Страница 55 - ... conquest might have been easy. He was fond of his dignity, while he was perpetually degrading it by undue familiarity; capable of much public labour, yet often neglecting it for the meanest amusement; a wit, though a pedant; and a scholar, though fond of the conversation of the ignorant and uneducated.

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