The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Band 20R. Cadell, 1848 |
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... whole tribe was originally descended , and whose name , compounded into a patronymic , as we have already mentioned , was the distinguishing appellation of the sept . Each clan , acting upon this principle , bore to its chief all the ...
... whole tribe was originally descended , and whose name , compounded into a patronymic , as we have already mentioned , was the distinguishing appellation of the sept . Each clan , acting upon this principle , bore to its chief all the ...
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... whole sept . Such head of a subordinate branch of a clan was called a chieftain ( a word of distinct and limit- ed meaning ) , but remained dependent and usually tributary to the chief , and bound to support , follow , and obey him in ...
... whole sept . Such head of a subordinate branch of a clan was called a chieftain ( a word of distinct and limit- ed meaning ) , but remained dependent and usually tributary to the chief , and bound to support , follow , and obey him in ...
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... whole routine of court - intrigue . The exercise of their talents in this , as well as in the exterior relations of the clan , and its public business , as it might be called , arising from alliances , jealousies , feuds , predatory ...
... whole routine of court - intrigue . The exercise of their talents in this , as well as in the exterior relations of the clan , and its public business , as it might be called , arising from alliances , jealousies , feuds , predatory ...
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... become too numerous for the land in which they dwell , one kinsman can say to another , " Why should there be strife between us ? Is not the whole land before thee separate thyself . " But the most remarkable part CULLODEN PAPERS . 25.
... become too numerous for the land in which they dwell , one kinsman can say to another , " Why should there be strife between us ? Is not the whole land before thee separate thyself . " But the most remarkable part CULLODEN PAPERS . 25.
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... whole tribes were occasionally destroyed by famine ; and even upon the continent , it was usual to bleed the cattle once a - year , that the blood thickened by oatmeal , and fried into a sort of cake , might nourish the people . But ...
... whole tribes were occasionally destroyed by famine ; and even upon the continent , it was usual to bleed the cattle once a - year , that the blood thickened by oatmeal , and fried into a sort of cake , might nourish the people . But ...
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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...