Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London., 1824 - 331 sider |
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Side 11
... Peter Peebles , just opened by the desertion of young Dumtoustie , whose de- fection would be at the same time concealed ; and this , Drudgeit said , " would be felling two dogs with one stone . ” With these explanations , the reader ...
... Peter Peebles , just opened by the desertion of young Dumtoustie , whose de- fection would be at the same time concealed ; and this , Drudgeit said , " would be felling two dogs with one stone . ” With these explanations , the reader ...
Side 12
... Peter Peebles's law- matters . It was to the old man a labour of love to place in a clear and undistorted view the real merits of this case , which the carelessness and blunders of Peter's former solicitors had convert- ed into a huge ...
... Peter Peebles's law- matters . It was to the old man a labour of love to place in a clear and undistorted view the real merits of this case , which the carelessness and blunders of Peter's former solicitors had convert- ed into a huge ...
Side 13
... Peter Peebles in his usual plenitude of wig and celsitude of hat . He seized on the young pleader like a lion on his prey . " How is a ' wi ' you , Mr Alan - how is a ' wi ' you , man ? —The awfu ' day is come at last - a day that will ...
... Peter Peebles in his usual plenitude of wig and celsitude of hat . He seized on the young pleader like a lion on his prey . " How is a ' wi ' you , Mr Alan - how is a ' wi ' you , man ? —The awfu ' day is come at last - a day that will ...
Side 15
... Peter Peebles , whose shallow brain was altogether un- able to bear the importance of the moment , kept as close to his young counsel as shadow to sub- stance , affected now to speak loud , now to whis- per in his ear , now to deck his ...
... Peter Peebles , whose shallow brain was altogether un- able to bear the importance of the moment , kept as close to his young counsel as shadow to sub- stance , affected now to speak loud , now to whis- per in his ear , now to deck his ...
Side 18
... Peter , do me a good turn . Yon- der's your namesake , Peter Peebles , will drive the swine through our bonny hanks of yarn ; get him over to John's coffee - house , man - gie him his meridian - keep him there , drunk or sober , till ...
... Peter , do me a good turn . Yon- der's your namesake , Peter Peebles , will drive the swine through our bonny hanks of yarn ; get him over to John's coffee - house , man - gie him his meridian - keep him there , drunk or sober , till ...
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acquainted addressed Alan Fairford Alan's answered appeared auld Baliol betwixt Birrenswork called cause clerk cobite Court Cristal Nixon danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas doubt Drudgeit Dumfries Edinburgh Edward Baliol endeavoured escape father favourable folks follow ford Geddes hand heard Herries hinnie honest honour hope horse Jacobites James Wilkinson John Davies Justice Foxley Justice of Peace lady Laird length letter loike look magistrate matter maun Maxwell means ment mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never occasion ower party Pate-in-Peril person Poor Peter Peebles present Provost Crosbie purpose Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Sallust Saunders Fairford Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush shew singular Solway Summertrees thee thing thou thought tion tone trepanned Trumbull trust unhappy voice vost warrant weel Whigs wish words young lawyer
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Side 203 - 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 160 - God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender !— God bless — No harm in blessing the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who that King,*— God bless us all, — is quite another thing.
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 7 - ... frequently, as his little cellar contained some choice old wine, of which, on such rare occasions, he was no niggard. The whole pleasure of this good old-fashioned man of method, besides that which he really felt in the discharge of his...
Side 203 - ... 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 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 240 - 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.
Side 326 - 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.