Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, Volumes 3-4W. Scott, 1888 |
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Page 75
... scarcely any consciousness of a con- ception the whole cerebral functions concerned in thought and feeling being limited to undefined sensation , that had only some connection with the power of external perception . - Even this partial ...
... scarcely any consciousness of a con- ception the whole cerebral functions concerned in thought and feeling being limited to undefined sensation , that had only some connection with the power of external perception . - Even this partial ...
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... scarcely hope that all those protracted efforts of the work- men would ever raise us from the immense depth at which we were thus fixed by some great cause . I looked in the placid face of the corpse , and wished that I were as far ...
... scarcely hope that all those protracted efforts of the work- men would ever raise us from the immense depth at which we were thus fixed by some great cause . I looked in the placid face of the corpse , and wished that I were as far ...
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... scarcely stand without the support of her father , who now , when he saw how the land lay , had recovered all his fortitude , with a portion of well - founded hope that the services he performed to the beggar - king would meet with ...
... scarcely stand without the support of her father , who now , when he saw how the land lay , had recovered all his fortitude , with a portion of well - founded hope that the services he performed to the beggar - king would meet with ...
Contents
WIDOW OF DUNSKAITII Hugh Miller | 1 |
THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY John Mackay Wilson | 20 |
THE SURGEONS TALES Alexander Leighton | 53 |
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