Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2James and John Harper, 1824 - 261 sider |
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... confidence , his natural disposition was steady , sedate , persevering , and undaunted . With these requisites he undertook a quest which , at that time , was not unattended with actual danger , and had much in it to appal a more timid ...
... confidence , his natural disposition was steady , sedate , persevering , and undaunted . With these requisites he undertook a quest which , at that time , was not unattended with actual danger , and had much in it to appal a more timid ...
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... confidence as well as Harry , it would not have been long before a pistol - ball slapped through my bonnet . -Well , I had little for it but to do the best I could for my- self ; and by my conscience it was time , when the gallows was ...
... confidence as well as Harry , it would not have been long before a pistol - ball slapped through my bonnet . -Well , I had little for it but to do the best I could for my- self ; and by my conscience it was time , when the gallows was ...
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... confidence and candour . " You must not be angry , Mr. Fairford , that the poor persecuted Non- jurors are a little upon the qui vive when such clever young men as you are making inquiries after us . I myself now , though I am quite out ...
... confidence and candour . " You must not be angry , Mr. Fairford , that the poor persecuted Non- jurors are a little upon the qui vive when such clever young men as you are making inquiries after us . I myself now , though I am quite out ...
Side 63
... Are you really in possession of this key to my confidence , or do you speak from mere accident ? " To this keen look of scrutiny , Fairford replied by a smile of intelligence . The iron muscles of the old man's face did not 63.
... Are you really in possession of this key to my confidence , or do you speak from mere accident ? " To this keen look of scrutiny , Fairford replied by a smile of intelligence . The iron muscles of the old man's face did not 63.
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... confidence of spirit , " you blessed yourself , but a little while since , that you had no acquaintances with those who defiled their names so far as to be obliged to change them . " 66 True , very true , " said Mr. Trumbull ...
... confidence of spirit , " you blessed yourself , but a little while since , that you had no acquaintances with those who defiled their names so far as to be obliged to change them . " 66 True , very true , " said Mr. Trumbull ...
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Side 237 - deserve the confidence of my subjects by reposing my security in the fidelity of the millions who acknowledge my title - in the good sense and prudence of the few who continue, from the errors of education, to disown it.' His Majesty will not even believe that the most zealous Jacobites who yet remain can nourish a thought of exciting a civil war, which must be fatal to their families and themselves, besides spreading bloodshed and ruin through a peaceful land. He cannot even believe of his kinsman,...
Side 22 - MY 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 237 - I thank you, sir,' said the General; 'and I reply that the answer to your question rests with yourself. Come, do not be fools, gentlemen; there was perhaps no great harm meant or intended by your gathering together in this obscure corner, for a...
Side 157 - That he shall never obtain," answered Darsie ; " my principles and my prudence alike forbid such a step. Besides, it would be totally unavailing to his purpose.
Side 238 - Is this real?" said Redgauntlet. " Can you mean this ? — Am I — are all, are any of these gentlemen at liberty, without interruption, to embark. in yonder brig, which, I see, is now again approaching the shore ?" " You, sir — all — any of the gentlemen present," said the General, — " all whom the vessel can contain, are at liberty to embark uninterrupted by me ; but I advise none to go off who have not powerful reasons, unconnected with the present meeting, for this will be remembered against...
Side 38 - Over the water, and over the sea, And over the water to Charlie ; Come weal, come woe, we'll gather and go, And live or die with Charlie.
Side 22 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Side 81 - 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.