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Side 156
... consider yourselves as having amply discharged your duty to King George and Go - ́ vernment . " The cold and ironical tone in which he made this declaration ; the look and attitude , so nobly expressive of absolute confidence in his own ...
... consider yourselves as having amply discharged your duty to King George and Go - ́ vernment . " The cold and ironical tone in which he made this declaration ; the look and attitude , so nobly expressive of absolute confidence in his own ...
Side 158
... consider my situation , and afford me relief at your peril . " " Here is a young fellow now , " said the Jus- tice , with much embarrassed looks , " thinks that I carry the whole statute law of England in my head , and a posse comitatus ...
... consider my situation , and afford me relief at your peril . " " Here is a young fellow now , " said the Jus- tice , with much embarrassed looks , " thinks that I carry the whole statute law of England in my head , and a posse comitatus ...
Side 190
... necessaries for one in your circumstances , are amply provided . Cristal Nixon will act as your valet , -I should rather , perhaps , say , your femme de chambre . Your travelling dress you may perhaps consider 190 JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII .
... necessaries for one in your circumstances , are amply provided . Cristal Nixon will act as your valet , -I should rather , perhaps , say , your femme de chambre . Your travelling dress you may perhaps consider 190 JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII .
Side 191
... consider as singular ; but it is such as the circumstances require ; and , if you object to use the articles prepared for your use , your mode of journeying will be as personally unpleasant as that which conducted you hither . Adieu ...
... consider as singular ; but it is such as the circumstances require ; and , if you object to use the articles prepared for your use , your mode of journeying will be as personally unpleasant as that which conducted you hither . Adieu ...
Side 192
... to a political faction , my resolution is taken in either case . Those who read this Jour- nal , if it shall be perused by impartial eyes , shall judge of me truly ; and if they consider me 192 JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII .
... to a political faction , my resolution is taken in either case . Those who read this Jour- nal , if it shall be perused by impartial eyes , shall judge of me truly ; and if they consider me 192 JOURNAL . CHAP . VIII .
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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.