Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1824 - 331 sider |
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... observation of the juvenile idlers in the hall . They did not , indeed , approach Peter with their usual familiarity , from some feeling of deference towards Fairford , though many accu- sed him of conceit in presuming to undertake so ...
... observation of the juvenile idlers in the hall . They did not , indeed , approach Peter with their usual familiarity , from some feeling of deference towards Fairford , though many accu- sed him of conceit in presuming to undertake so ...
Side 59
... observed two successive sky - rockets arise and burst in the sky . " These meteors , " said Mr Geddes , in answer to his sister's observation , " are not formed in heaven , nor do they bode any good to the dwel- lers upon earth . " As ...
... observed two successive sky - rockets arise and burst in the sky . " These meteors , " said Mr Geddes , in answer to his sister's observation , " are not formed in heaven , nor do they bode any good to the dwel- lers upon earth . " As ...
Side 99
... observed , with some unpleasant sensations , that the windows of my apartment had been lately se- cured with iron stancheons , and that the servants who brought me victuals , or visited my apart- ment to render other menial offices ...
... observed , with some unpleasant sensations , that the windows of my apartment had been lately se- cured with iron stancheons , and that the servants who brought me victuals , or visited my apart- ment to render other menial offices ...
Side 117
... observed that I was dogged by Cristal Nixon , who suddenly appeared within two paces of me , and with whose great personal strength , independent of the as- sistance he might have received from his master , I saw no chance of contending ...
... observed that I was dogged by Cristal Nixon , who suddenly appeared within two paces of me , and with whose great personal strength , independent of the as- sistance he might have received from his master , I saw no chance of contending ...
Side 135
... - " Gude day to ye , gude day to your honours -Is't here they sell the fugie warrants ? " I observed that , on his entrance , my friend - or enemy - drew himself back , and placed himself as JOURNAL . CHAP . VII . 135.
... - " Gude day to ye , gude day to your honours -Is't here they sell the fugie warrants ? " I observed that , on his entrance , my friend - or enemy - drew himself back , and placed himself as JOURNAL . CHAP . VII . 135.
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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.