The Edinburgh Annual Register, Part 2John Ballantyne and Company, 1812 - Europe |
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... Gentle men of every cloth seemed almost to think the ex - hostess present , and to indulge with the poet in the pleasing thought , that " Fancy restores what absence takes away . " The number of private carriages has resembled the ...
... Gentle men of every cloth seemed almost to think the ex - hostess present , and to indulge with the poet in the pleasing thought , that " Fancy restores what absence takes away . " The number of private carriages has resembled the ...
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... gentle- man who attended her applied to the Humane Society for relief for her , which was immediately granted . He also reported , that it appeared that she had been induced to commit the rash act from the ill treatment of her mistress ...
... gentle- man who attended her applied to the Humane Society for relief for her , which was immediately granted . He also reported , that it appeared that she had been induced to commit the rash act from the ill treatment of her mistress ...
Page 65
... gentle- men , and another woman , by thrust- ing a handkerchief down her throat , which produced suffocation ! So ef- fectually and determinedly did this interesting young creature accomplish her purpose , that it was necessary to use ...
... gentle- men , and another woman , by thrust- ing a handkerchief down her throat , which produced suffocation ! So ef- fectually and determinedly did this interesting young creature accomplish her purpose , that it was necessary to use ...
Page 76
... gentle men said , I will not deceive you ; I tell you fairly , I have been there and measured it myself . Well , ' says the other , and do you think I would be such a fool as to lay if I had not measured it . I will lay for all that ...
... gentle men said , I will not deceive you ; I tell you fairly , I have been there and measured it myself . Well , ' says the other , and do you think I would be such a fool as to lay if I had not measured it . I will lay for all that ...
Page 89
... gently , and , on looking towards it , he observed a man , with something over his face , which had the appearance of a crape . The way the prosecutor de- scribed the movements of the man , was exactly the same as a performer in a ...
... gently , and , on looking towards it , he observed a man , with something over his face , which had the appearance of a crape . The way the prosecutor de- scribed the movements of the man , was exactly the same as a performer in a ...
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