Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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Side 22
... attention ; the highest compliment , and the greatest encou- ragement , which a judge can render to the coun- sel addressing him . Having succeeded in securing the favourable attention of the Court 22 CHAP . 1 . NARRATIVE .
... attention ; the highest compliment , and the greatest encou- ragement , which a judge can render to the coun- sel addressing him . Having succeeded in securing the favourable attention of the Court 22 CHAP . 1 . NARRATIVE .
Side 23
sir Walter Scott (bart.) Having succeeded in securing the favourable attention of the Court , the young lawyer , using the lights which his father's experience and knowledge of business had afforded him , proceed- ed with an address and ...
sir Walter Scott (bart.) Having succeeded in securing the favourable attention of the Court , the young lawyer , using the lights which his father's experience and knowledge of business had afforded him , proceed- ed with an address and ...
Side 27
... attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not given the consideration which he expected ; it was founded on the interpretation of certain correspondence which had passed betwixt the parties , soon after the ...
... attention had been otherwise so wonderfully comprehensive , had not given the consideration which he expected ; it was founded on the interpretation of certain correspondence which had passed betwixt the parties , soon after the ...
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... attention to the business of this unlucky morning . No view of personal distinction , nothing , indeed , short of your earnest and often expressed wishes , could have detained me in town till this day ; and ha- ving made this sacrifice ...
... attention to the business of this unlucky morning . No view of personal distinction , nothing , indeed , short of your earnest and often expressed wishes , could have detained me in town till this day ; and ha- ving made this sacrifice ...
Side 139
... attention to what followed among this sin- gular party . That Poor Peter Peebles had been put upon this wild - goose chase , by some of his juvenile advisers in the Parliament House , he himself had intimated ; but he spoke with much ...
... attention to what followed among this sin- gular party . That Poor Peter Peebles had been put upon this wild - goose chase , by some of his juvenile advisers in the Parliament House , he himself had intimated ; but he spoke with much ...
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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.