Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1824 - 331 sider |
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Side 50
... suffer in the body as well as the mind . He had formed the deter- mination of setting out in person for Dumfries- shire , when , after having been dogged , peevish , and snappish to his clerks and domestics , to an unusual and almost ...
... suffer in the body as well as the mind . He had formed the deter- mination of setting out in person for Dumfries- shire , when , after having been dogged , peevish , and snappish to his clerks and domestics , to an unusual and almost ...
Side 56
... suffered my motions to be directed by any person who chanced to be near me , instead of taking the labour of thinking or deciding for myself . I had employed for some time , as a sort of guide and errand - boy , a boy named Benjamin ...
... suffered my motions to be directed by any person who chanced to be near me , instead of taking the labour of thinking or deciding for myself . I had employed for some time , as a sort of guide and errand - boy , a boy named Benjamin ...
Side 69
... suffered him to harm a fly ; but thou seest , friend Latimer , that as men arm their bull - dogs with spiked collars , and their game - cocks with steel spurs , to aid them in fight , so they corrupt , by education , the best and ...
... suffered him to harm a fly ; but thou seest , friend Latimer , that as men arm their bull - dogs with spiked collars , and their game - cocks with steel spurs , to aid them in fight , so they corrupt , by education , the best and ...
Side 70
... suffering , as becomes a man , that which fate calls us to suffer , and justice commands us to do , but because thou art ready to retort violence for violence , and considerest the lightest insult as a sufficient cause for the spilling ...
... suffering , as becomes a man , that which fate calls us to suffer , and justice commands us to do , but because thou art ready to retort violence for violence , and considerest the lightest insult as a sufficient cause for the spilling ...
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... suffer- ing . Agitation , and the effects of the usage I had received , had produced a burning thirst . I asked for a drink of water . " Heaven Almighty forbid that Epps Ainslie should gie ony sick gentleman cauld well - water , and him ...
... suffer- ing . Agitation , and the effects of the usage I had received , had produced a burning thirst . I asked for a drink of water . " Heaven Almighty forbid that Epps Ainslie should gie ony sick gentleman cauld well - water , and him ...
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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.