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Side 22
... tone in which Alan began his address to the Court , apologizing for his own presump- tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been ...
... tone in which Alan began his address to the Court , apologizing for his own presump- tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been ...
Side 75
... tones of the blind fiddler , Will , known by the name of Wandering Willie , from his itinerant habits . They continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming ...
... tones of the blind fiddler , Will , known by the name of Wandering Willie , from his itinerant habits . They continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming ...
Side 78
... tone , " Whisht a - ye , hinnie - whisht a - ye ; a - ye ; haud your tongue , like a gude bairn - ye have cost us dear aneugh already . My hinnie's clean gane now . " Knowing , as I thought , the phraseology of the wife of the itinerant ...
... tone , " Whisht a - ye , hinnie - whisht a - ye ; a - ye ; haud your tongue , like a gude bairn - ye have cost us dear aneugh already . My hinnie's clean gane now . " Knowing , as I thought , the phraseology of the wife of the itinerant ...
Side 112
... tone more conciliating . I mentioned the two occasions on which he had certainly saved my life , when at the utmost peril ; and I added , that whatever was the purpose of the restraint now practised on me , as I was given to understand ...
... tone more conciliating . I mentioned the two occasions on which he had certainly saved my life , when at the utmost peril ; and I added , that whatever was the purpose of the restraint now practised on me , as I was given to understand ...
Side 113
... tone too humble for the situation of an injured man , and I am inclined to think so when I again recapitu- late its tenor . But what could I do ? I was in the power of one whose passions seem as violent as his means of gratifying them ...
... tone too humble for the situation of an injured man , and I am inclined to think so when I again recapitu- late its tenor . But what could I do ? I was in the power of one whose passions seem as violent as his means of gratifying them ...
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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.