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... , Edinburgh , 1762 PAGE . 156 161 • 165 • 175 • 185 189 . 191 197 • 203 215 • 223 227 • 243 246 · 253 259 • 273 275 287 291 . 295 307 . 325 331 338 345 PREFATORY NOTE OCKHART'S Life of Sir Walter Scott is and viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
... , Edinburgh , 1762 PAGE . 156 161 • 165 • 175 • 185 189 . 191 197 • 203 215 • 223 227 • 243 246 · 253 259 • 273 275 287 291 . 295 307 . 325 331 338 345 PREFATORY NOTE OCKHART'S Life of Sir Walter Scott is and viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Gerald Le Grys Norgate. PREFATORY NOTE OCKHART'S Life of Sir Walter Scott is and will always remain the magazine from which the material for the great novelist's biography must be drawn . The Familiar Letters and the Journal have of late ...
Gerald Le Grys Norgate. PREFATORY NOTE OCKHART'S Life of Sir Walter Scott is and will always remain the magazine from which the material for the great novelist's biography must be drawn . The Familiar Letters and the Journal have of late ...
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... note . One of the best anecdotes told of this droll is that of his discomfiture of the recruiting sergeant at St. Boswell's Fair . The sergeant , unaware that one of his audience had himself served with the colours , had been holding ...
... note . One of the best anecdotes told of this droll is that of his discomfiture of the recruiting sergeant at St. Boswell's Fair . The sergeant , unaware that one of his audience had himself served with the colours , had been holding ...
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... note it is clear that Scott had made a more than usually generous offer of pecuniary assistance in the strait to which his father - in- law's sudden bankruptcy had reduced him . Sir Walter was highly delighted with the grand cere ...
... note it is clear that Scott had made a more than usually generous offer of pecuniary assistance in the strait to which his father - in- law's sudden bankruptcy had reduced him . Sir Walter was highly delighted with the grand cere ...
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... note of the little Zetland corn - mills with their horizontal wheels- " not capable any one of them of grinding above a sackful of corn at a time " -one of which he makes Triptolemus designate as a " miserable molendinary " significant ...
... note of the little Zetland corn - mills with their horizontal wheels- " not capable any one of them of grinding above a sackful of corn at a time " -one of which he makes Triptolemus designate as a " miserable molendinary " significant ...
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