The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... dear cousin , this man saved my life , and his fate , even when my own and my father's were in the balance , could not but affect me pearly , " " In the naine of him who is jealous , even to slaying , ' said the first ” - Cetera desunt ...
... dear cousin , this man saved my life , and his fate , even when my own and my father's were in the balance , could not but affect me pearly , " " In the naine of him who is jealous , even to slaying , ' said the first ” - Cetera desunt ...
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... dear countrymer , O never do the like again , To thirst for vengeance , never ben Your gun nor pa ' , But with the English e'en borrow and len ' , Let anger fa . Their boasts and bullying , not worth a louse As our King's the best about ...
... dear countrymer , O never do the like again , To thirst for vengeance , never ben Your gun nor pa ' , But with the English e'en borrow and len ' , Let anger fa . Their boasts and bullying , not worth a louse As our King's the best about ...
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... dear Edward , it is God's will , and also berty , he had not made the best of his way to a place the will of your father , whom , under God , it is your of safety ; to which he replied , that he had intended duty to obey , that you ...
... dear Edward , it is God's will , and also berty , he had not made the best of his way to a place the will of your father , whom , under God , it is your of safety ; to which he replied , that he had intended duty to obey , that you ...
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... dear pupil to resist Honour . A congenial passion for field - sports , and a such unhallowed and pernicious doctrines in church general coincidence in political opinions , cemented and sate , as must necessarily be forced at times upon ...
... dear pupil to resist Honour . A congenial passion for field - sports , and a such unhallowed and pernicious doctrines in church general coincidence in political opinions , cemented and sate , as must necessarily be forced at times upon ...
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... dear doctor , I have a wife and family ; but , to show wonderful change ; and though some mentioned the my zeal , I'll recommend the job to my neighbour proselyte as an enthusiast , none hinted at his being a Trimmel - he is a bachelor ...
... dear doctor , I have a wife and family ; but , to show wonderful change ; and though some mentioned the my zeal , I'll recommend the job to my neighbour proselyte as an enthusiast , none hinted at his being a Trimmel - he is a bachelor ...
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Page 143 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs, long...
Page 110 - And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on the deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the boughs of the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses to his beautiful wife, who will hang upon his arm; —...
Page 21 - ... became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. Appalled by this sudden change of weather, Miss Wardour drew close to her father, and held his arm fast.
Page 17 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.