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... length he was totally ruined by repeated seizures . The man became desperate . He considered himself as robbed and plundered ; and took it into his head , that he had a right to make reprisals , as he could find opportunity . Where the ...
... length he was totally ruined by repeated seizures . The man became desperate . He considered himself as robbed and plundered ; and took it into his head , that he had a right to make reprisals , as he could find opportunity . Where the ...
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... length reached the place of common execution , the scene of his crime , and destined spot of his sufferings . Several of the rioters ( if they should This little mcident , characteristic of the extreme compo sue of this extraordinary ...
... length reached the place of common execution , the scene of his crime , and destined spot of his sufferings . Several of the rioters ( if they should This little mcident , characteristic of the extreme compo sue of this extraordinary ...
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... length the train of his interrogatories reached Madge Wildfire , at whose name the magis- trate and town - clerk exchanged significant glances . If the fate of the Good Town had depended on her careful magistrate's knowing the features ...
... length the train of his interrogatories reached Madge Wildfire , at whose name the magis- trate and town - clerk exchanged significant glances . If the fate of the Good Town had depended on her careful magistrate's knowing the features ...
Pagina 12
... length , after a minute of apprehensive hesitation , he looked at her dress to dis- cover whether it seemed to be in her contemplation to go abroad that morning . Her apparel was neat and plain , but such as conveyed no exact intimation ...
... length , after a minute of apprehensive hesitation , he looked at her dress to dis- cover whether it seemed to be in her contemplation to go abroad that morning . Her apparel was neat and plain , but such as conveyed no exact intimation ...
Pagina 13
... length over their briefs and notes of evidence , looked grave , laid open to all whose curiosity induces them to be and whispered with each other . They occupied one present on the occasion . With inflamed countenan- side of a large ...
... length over their briefs and notes of evidence , looked grave , laid open to all whose curiosity induces them to be and whispered with each other . They occupied one present on the occasion . With inflamed countenan- side of a large ...
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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.