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Side 25
... justice being voluntarily render- ed by the former clerk to his former master , - by the party obliged to his benefactor , -- by one honest man to another , his wretched client had been compelled to follow his quondam clerk , his ...
... justice being voluntarily render- ed by the former clerk to his former master , - by the party obliged to his benefactor , -- by one honest man to another , his wretched client had been compelled to follow his quondam clerk , his ...
Side 26
... justice , and to that hope delayed which sickens the heart . " The force of this appeal to feeling made as much impression on the Bench , as had been pre- viously effected by the clearness of Alan's argu- ment . The absurd form of Peter ...
... justice , and to that hope delayed which sickens the heart . " The force of this appeal to feeling made as much impression on the Bench , as had been pre- viously effected by the clearness of Alan's argu- ment . The absurd form of Peter ...
Side 54
... justice of my country . Undeterred , there- fore , by the probability that my papers may be torn from me , and subjected to the inspection of one in particular , who , causelessly my enemy already , may be yet farther incensed at me for ...
... justice of my country . Undeterred , there- fore , by the probability that my papers may be torn from me , and subjected to the inspection of one in particular , who , causelessly my enemy already , may be yet farther incensed at me for ...
Side 62
... , I warrant thee , ” said Joshua Geddes , returning the pressure of my hand . " Rachel , the young man shall go with me . Why should he not face danger , in order to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that 62 CHAP . III . JOURNAL .
... , I warrant thee , ” said Joshua Geddes , returning the pressure of my hand . " Rachel , the young man shall go with me . Why should he not face danger , in order to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that 62 CHAP . III . JOURNAL .
Side 63
sir Walter Scott (bart.) to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that within me , " he added , looking upwards , and with a passing enthusiasm which I had not before ob- served , and which perhaps rather belonged to the sect than to ...
sir Walter Scott (bart.) to do justice and preserve peace ? There is that within me , " he added , looking upwards , and with a passing enthusiasm which I had not before ob- served , and which perhaps rather belonged to the sect than to ...
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acquainted addressed Alan Fairford Alan's answered 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 gentleman 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; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
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.
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 323 - I hope, sir," answered Fairford, civilly, " you are in the habit of reading better books." " Faith," answered Nanty, " with help of a little Geneva text, I could read my Sallust as well as you can ; " and snatching the book from Alan's hand, he began to read, in the Scottish accent.
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 240 - Charlie,' upon the tenth of June. He is a black sheep, and deserves no encouragement." " Not a bad tune though, after all," said Summertrees ; and, turning to the window, he half hummed, half whistled, the air in question, then sang the last verse aloud: Oh I...
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.