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... occasion , probably , Sir Gideon Scott of Highchester , second son of Sir William , immediate elder brother Walter , and ancestor of the author's friend and kirsman , the pre- Bent representative of the family of Harden , also embraced ...
... occasion , probably , Sir Gideon Scott of Highchester , second son of Sir William , immediate elder brother Walter , and ancestor of the author's friend and kirsman , the pre- Bent representative of the family of Harden , also embraced ...
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... occasions that the Insides and Outsides , terest . The ridicule may attach to me , which is to use the apropriate ... occasion , however , fate had decreed waters , while the modern is smashed to pieces with that I should not enjoy ...
... occasions that the Insides and Outsides , terest . The ridicule may attach to me , which is to use the apropriate ... occasion , however , fate had decreed waters , while the modern is smashed to pieces with that I should not enjoy ...
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... occasion augmented the feeling of compassion which attended his fate . The public , where their own prejudices are ... occasions where confusion or popular disturb- ance might be expected . Poor Ferguson , whose ir- regularities ...
... occasion augmented the feeling of compassion which attended his fate . The public , where their own prejudices are ... occasions where confusion or popular disturb- ance might be expected . Poor Ferguson , whose ir- regularities ...
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... occasion , how- ever , it seemed to those who saw him as if he were agitated by some evil demon . His step was irregu- lar , his voice hollow and broken , his countenance pale , his eyes staring and wild , his speech imperfect and ...
... occasion , how- ever , it seemed to those who saw him as if he were agitated by some evil demon . His step was irregu- lar , his voice hollow and broken , his countenance pale , his eyes staring and wild , his speech imperfect and ...
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... occasion , objects of terror and of solemn interest . Apparently by this time Captain Porteous had be- Amid so numerous an assembly there was scarcely gun to doubt the propriety of his own conduct , and a word spoken , save in whispers ...
... occasion , objects of terror and of solemn interest . Apparently by this time Captain Porteous had be- Amid so numerous an assembly there was scarcely gun to doubt the propriety of his own conduct , and a word spoken , save in whispers ...
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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.