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... tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been much more worthily designed . He spoke of himself as he really was , and of young ...
... tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been much more worthily designed . He spoke of himself as he really was , and of young ...
Side 36
... tion , to delay communicating to his son the dis- agreeable intelligence which he had received , un- til the business of the day should be ended . The delay , he persuaded himself , could be of little consequence to Darsie Latimer ...
... tion , to delay communicating to his son the dis- agreeable intelligence which he had received , un- til the business of the day should be ended . The delay , he persuaded himself , could be of little consequence to Darsie Latimer ...
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... tion of this history assumes , with the next divi- sion , a form somewhat different from direct nar- rative and epistolary correspondence , though partaking of the character of both . CHAPTER III . JOURNAL OF DARSIE LATIMER . The ...
... tion of this history assumes , with the next divi- sion , a form somewhat different from direct nar- rative and epistolary correspondence , though partaking of the character of both . CHAPTER III . JOURNAL OF DARSIE LATIMER . The ...
Side 71
... soon transform such a tranquil scene as this , into a scene of devasta- tion and confusion ? " It was indeed a scene of exquisite stillness ; so much so , that the restless waves of the Solway JOURNAL . CHAP . III . 71.
... soon transform such a tranquil scene as this , into a scene of devasta- tion and confusion ? " It was indeed a scene of exquisite stillness ; so much so , that the restless waves of the Solway JOURNAL . CHAP . III . 71.
Side 86
... tion , was the singular person residing at Broken- burn , in Dumfries - shire , and called by the fishers of that hamlet , the Laird of the Solway Lochs . The cause for his inveterate persecution I can- not pretend even to guess at . In ...
... tion , was the singular person residing at Broken- burn , in Dumfries - shire , and called by the fishers of that hamlet , the Laird of the Solway Lochs . The cause for his inveterate persecution I can- not pretend even to guess at . In ...
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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.