The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Band 20R. Cadell, 1848 |
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... observations of an impartial , and , on the whole , an unpreju- diced stranger , it is a good record of Highland manners at the commencement of the 18th century . This peculiarity , which , in the course of ages CULLODEN PAPERS . 21.
... observations of an impartial , and , on the whole , an unpreju- diced stranger , it is a good record of Highland manners at the commencement of the 18th century . This peculiarity , which , in the course of ages CULLODEN PAPERS . 21.
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... observed that the intended robbery of the Murray - man is treated as a matter of course . The only thing requiring apology was the aggres- sion on an allied and friendly clan.1 The artisans in a Highland tribe were few , but rose in ...
... observed that the intended robbery of the Murray - man is treated as a matter of course . The only thing requiring apology was the aggres- sion on an allied and friendly clan.1 The artisans in a Highland tribe were few , but rose in ...
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... observed in a system which appeared entirely to hinge upon it . Never- theless , in pressing circumstances , this rule was sometimes overlooked . Usurpations and revolu- tions also occasionally took place , as in larger prin- cipalities ...
... observed in a system which appeared entirely to hinge upon it . Never- theless , in pressing circumstances , this rule was sometimes overlooked . Usurpations and revolu- tions also occasionally took place , as in larger prin- cipalities ...
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... observed that , in for- mer times , the Highland chiefs paid allegiance to princes of their own , altogether distinct from the King of Scotland , with whom they were some- times at war , sometimes at peace , or , at the utmost ...
... observed that , in for- mer times , the Highland chiefs paid allegiance to princes of their own , altogether distinct from the King of Scotland , with whom they were some- times at war , sometimes at peace , or , at the utmost ...
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... observed with terror , that they were regularly watched , during the milking , by an emaciated miserable- looking female figure , who appeared from among the bushes , but retired with great swiftness when any one approached her . The ...
... observed with terror , that they were regularly watched , during the milking , by an emaciated miserable- looking female figure , who appeared from among the bushes , but retired with great swiftness when any one approached her . The ...
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Seite 168 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 93 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Seite 95 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Seite 106 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Seite 105 - I followed them up into Whitehall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another's by one another's heads, and laughing.
Seite 272 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of...
Seite 29 - That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can.
Seite 135 - ... when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of...
Seite 105 - King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of...
Seite 118 - At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty ; and indeed was fine all over, and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering ; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses...