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... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope , that their bairn , as they expressed it , M might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope , that their bairn , as they expressed it , M might wag his pow in a ...
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... Dominie Sampson , ( for he had already attained that honourable title , ) descend the stairs from the Greek class , with his Lexicon under his arm , his long mis - shapen legs sprawling abroad , and keeping awkward time to the play of ...
... Dominie Sampson , ( for he had already attained that honourable title , ) descend the stairs from the Greek class , with his Lexicon under his arm , his long mis - shapen legs sprawling abroad , and keeping awkward time to the play of ...
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... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called « < Sampson's Riddle ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called « < Sampson's Riddle ...
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... Dominie Sampson . Con- versation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted also to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and re- linquished ...
... Dominie Sampson . Con- versation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted also to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and re- linquished ...
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... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way- -she did not live far from hereabouts - ye need na shake your head ...
... Dominie the honour to sit up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way- -she did not live far from hereabouts - ye need na shake your head ...
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Page 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Page 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Page 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Page 55 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Page 41 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life.
Page 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.