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... mind was constructed upon so limited and exclusive a plan , that he valued no- thing , save the objects of ambition which his own presented . He would have shuddered at Alan's acquiring the renown of a hero , and laughed with scorn at ...
... mind was constructed upon so limited and exclusive a plan , that he valued no- thing , save the objects of ambition which his own presented . He would have shuddered at Alan's acquiring the renown of a hero , and laughed with scorn at ...
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... mind were accom- panied with singular " mockings and mow- ings , " fantastic gestures , which the man of rags and litigation deemed appropriate to his changes of countenance . Now he brandished his arm aloft , now thrust his fist ...
... mind were accom- panied with singular " mockings and mow- ings , " fantastic gestures , which the man of rags and litigation deemed appropriate to his changes of countenance . Now he brandished his arm aloft , now thrust his fist ...
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... mind and recollection along with it , Alan frank- ly told his father , that unless he was relieved from the infliction of his client's personal presence and instructions , he must necessarily throw up his brief , and decline pleading ...
... mind and recollection along with it , Alan frank- ly told his father , that unless he was relieved from the infliction of his client's personal presence and instructions , he must necessarily throw up his brief , and decline pleading ...
Side 39
... mind and happiness ; but I hope your having done so will be , if not an excuse , at least some mitigation of my present offence , in taking a step of conse quence without consulting your pleasure ; and , I must further own , under ...
... mind and happiness ; but I hope your having done so will be , if not an excuse , at least some mitigation of my present offence , in taking a step of conse quence without consulting your pleasure ; and , I must further own , under ...
Side 50
... 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 intolerable degree , the acri ...
... 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 intolerable degree , the acri ...
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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.