Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2James and John Harper, 1824 - 261 sider |
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Side 17
... hold them dangerous . I do not mean to aggravate my present situation by any unavailing resistance to the superior force which detains me ; but I will not renounce the right of asserting my natural freedom should a favourable ...
... hold them dangerous . I do not mean to aggravate my present situation by any unavailing resistance to the superior force which detains me ; but I will not renounce the right of asserting my natural freedom should a favourable ...
Side 21
... hold those of comradeship more closely sacred ; so that honour is sometimes found among thieves , and faith and attachment in such as the law has terned vagrants . The history of Richard Cœur de Lion and his minstrel , Blondel , rushed ...
... hold those of comradeship more closely sacred ; so that honour is sometimes found among thieves , and faith and attachment in such as the law has terned vagrants . The history of Richard Cœur de Lion and his minstrel , Blondel , rushed ...
Side 30
... hold of one of them till all the fray is over . " Mr. Crosbie , this will not do , " answered the young counsellor ; " there is a person of more importance than such wretches as you describe concerned in this unhappy business - I must ...
... hold of one of them till all the fray is over . " Mr. Crosbie , this will not do , " answered the young counsellor ; " there is a person of more importance than such wretches as you describe concerned in this unhappy business - I must ...
Side 31
... hold his mother's name , which is also partly his own , when he is about Edinburgh . To wear his proper name might be accounted a kind of flying in the face of government , ye understand . But he has been long connived at - the story is ...
... hold his mother's name , which is also partly his own , when he is about Edinburgh . To wear his proper name might be accounted a kind of flying in the face of government , ye understand . But he has been long connived at - the story is ...
Side 37
... holds all violence as offence against his own soul , yet neither the floods of water , nor the fear of the snare , nor the drawn sword of the adversary brandished in the path , will overcome his purpose . Wherefore the Solway may ...
... holds all violence as offence against his own soul , yet neither the floods of water , nor the fear of the snare , nor the drawn sword of the adversary brandished in the path , will overcome his purpose . Wherefore the Solway may ...
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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.