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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... young Englishman was able to pay a consider- able board , was a matter of no importance to Mr Fairford ; it was enough that his presence seemed to make his son cheerful and happy . He was compelled to allow that " Darsie was a NARRATIVE ...
... young Englishman was able to pay a consider- able board , was a matter of no importance to Mr Fairford ; it was enough that his presence seemed to make his son cheerful and happy . He was compelled to allow that " Darsie was a NARRATIVE ...
Side 9
... young men were united by the closest bonds of intimacy ; and the more so , that neither of them sought or desired to admit any others into their society . Alan Fairford was averse to general company , from a disposition naturally ...
... young men were united by the closest bonds of intimacy ; and the more so , that neither of them sought or desired to admit any others into their society . Alan Fairford was averse to general company , from a disposition naturally ...
Side 10
... young man went through his usual duties , his studies , and the examinations to which he was subjected , but with nothing like the zeal and assiduity which he had formerly displayed ; and his anxious and observant father saw but too ...
... young man went through his usual duties , his studies , and the examinations to which he was subjected , but with nothing like the zeal and assiduity which he had formerly displayed ; and his anxious and observant father saw but too ...
Side 11
... 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 will hold a man of the elder Fairford's sense and ...
... 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 will hold a man of the elder Fairford's sense and ...
Side 12
... young man from taking a step , which his habits of thinking repre- sented as a most fatal one at his outset in life . Betwixt two evils , Mr Fairford chose that which was in his own apprehension the least ; and , like a brave officer ...
... young man from taking a step , which his habits of thinking repre- sented as a most fatal one at his outset in life . Betwixt two evils , Mr Fairford chose that which was in his own apprehension the least ; and , like a brave officer ...
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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.