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Side 17
... answered Alan , " I shall be unable to go on - he drives everything out of my remembrance ; and if I attempt to speak seriously of the injuries he has sustained , and the condition he is reduced to , how can I expect but that the very ...
... answered Alan , " I shall be unable to go on - he drives everything out of my remembrance ; and if I attempt to speak seriously of the injuries he has sustained , and the condition he is reduced to , how can I expect but that the very ...
Side 20
... answered not the sum- mons , which , deep and swelling as it was , could not reach across the Queensferry ; but our Mais- ter Alan Fairford appeared in his place . The Court was very much crowded ; for much amusement had been received ...
... answered not the sum- mons , which , deep and swelling as it was , could not reach across the Queensferry ; but our Mais- ter Alan Fairford appeared in his place . The Court was very much crowded ; for much amusement had been received ...
Side 27
... answer , in order to be able to follow Mr Fair- ford from point to point . He had further to ob- serve , there was one point of the case to which his brother , whose attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not ...
... answer , in order to be able to follow Mr Fair- ford from point to point . He had further to ob- serve , there was one point of the case to which his brother , whose attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not ...
Side 29
... answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? " . " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as senseless as if he had been made ...
... answer to the various questions , “ What was the matter ? " " Was he taken unwell ? " . " Should not a chair be called ? " & c . & c . & c . The elder Mr Fairford , who remained seated , and looking as senseless as if he had been made ...
Side 30
... bitch ? " " Nothing , my lord , " answered Bladderscate , much too formal to admire the levities in which his philosophical brother sometimes indulged- " I say nothing , but pray to Heaven to 30 CHAP . I. NARRATIVE .
... bitch ? " " Nothing , my lord , " answered Bladderscate , much too formal to admire the levities in which his philosophical brother sometimes indulged- " I say nothing , but pray to Heaven to 30 CHAP . I. NARRATIVE .
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Side 322 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 201 - MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here : My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of valour, the country of worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Side 201 - Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush ; We'll over the border and give them a brush ; There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour, Hey, Johnnie lad, cock np your beaver.
Side 3 - ... practised by various great authors, and by ourselves in the preceding chapters. Nevertheless, a genuine correspondence of this kind (and Heaven forbid it should be in any respect sophisticated by interpolations of our own !) can seldom be found to contain all in which it is necessary to instruct the reader for his full comprehension of the story.
Side 201 - ... HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Side 238 - Charlie,' upon the tenth of June. He is a black sheep, and deserves no encouragement." " Not a bad tune though, after all," said Summertrees ; and, turning to the window, he half hummed, half whistled, the air in question, then sang the last verse aloud: Oh I...
Side 85 - I answered, with an energy of which despair alone could have rendered me capable — " I will never submit to loss of freedom a moment longer than I am subjected to it by force.
Side 238 - I swear and vow by moon and stars, And sun that shines so early, If I had twenty thousand lives, I'd die as aft for Charlie.