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... Marquis of Argyle to Edinburgh , where that nobleman was tried and executed . Swinton was destined to the same fate . He had assumed the habit , and entered into the society of the Quakers , and appeared as one of their number before ...
... Marquis of Argyle to Edinburgh , where that nobleman was tried and executed . Swinton was destined to the same fate . He had assumed the habit , and entered into the society of the Quakers , and appeared as one of their number before ...
Pagina 124
... Marquis present ; the Lord Keeper has got all his estates - he has not cross to bless himself with . " On which the ancient Lord Turntippet ' replied , " If he hasna gear to fine , He has shins to pine'- svad And that was our way before ...
... Marquis present ; the Lord Keeper has got all his estates - he has not cross to bless himself with . " On which the ancient Lord Turntippet ' replied , " If he hasna gear to fine , He has shins to pine'- svad And that was our way before ...
Pagina 125
... Marquis , " had we either thought that your lordship's drought was quenchable , or observed any thing stick in your throat that required washing down . " bo And so we close the scene on the Privy Council of that period . blogs , Tallem ...
... Marquis , " had we either thought that your lordship's drought was quenchable , or observed any thing stick in your throat that required washing down . " bo And so we close the scene on the Privy Council of that period . blogs , Tallem ...
Pagina 132
... Marquis of A , intimating and gently lie down in his stall , he could hardly help his purpose ; and when pressed upon the subject by envying the animal's apparent acquiescence in a life Bucklaw , he was wont to allege the necessity of ...
... Marquis of A , intimating and gently lie down in his stall , he could hardly help his purpose ; and when pressed upon the subject by envying the animal's apparent acquiescence in a life Bucklaw , he was wont to allege the necessity of ...
Pagina 133
... Marquis is too wise , at least too wary , to join you in such a burden . I suspect he alludes to a revolution in the Scottish Privy Council , rather than in the Brit- ish kingdoms . " " Having thus , as becometh our kindred , given you ...
... Marquis is too wise , at least too wary , to join you in such a burden . I suspect he alludes to a revolution in the Scottish Privy Council , rather than in the Brit- ish kingdoms . " " Having thus , as becometh our kindred , given you ...
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Allan ancient answered auld bairn Balderstone better betwixt Bucklaw Butler Caleb called canna Captain Dalgetty castle Covenanters Craigengelt Crossmyloof daughter David Deans dinna door Drumthwacket Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman George Staunton gude hand Hayston head heard heart Highland honour hope horse Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jedediah Cleishbotham Lady Ashton Laird Libberton look Lord Keeper Lord Menteith Lucy M'Aulay Madge mair Marquis Master of Ravenswood maun means ment Middleburgh mind Montrose muckle never night occasion ower person poor Porteous Ranald Ratcliffe replied Reuben Roseneath Saddletree Scotland Scottish seemed Sharpit Sharpitlaw Sir Duncan Sir William Ashton sister soldier speak Staunton suld sword tell thing thou thought tion tone turn voice weel whilk Wildfire Wolf's Crag woman word young
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Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.