Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 13 |
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... Dr Fulton's business increased with his reputation , and his reputa- tion with his business . Now , indeed , our young couple felt happy . There is something in home that gives dignity to life . The man who can say my home and my family ...
... Dr Fulton's business increased with his reputation , and his reputa- tion with his business . Now , indeed , our young couple felt happy . There is something in home that gives dignity to life . The man who can say my home and my family ...
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... Dr R- was absent , and Dr Fulton was sent for . From this time he became one of their family physicians . With all this increase of consequence , their habits were much the same . The happiness and improvement of the children was the ...
... Dr R- was absent , and Dr Fulton was sent for . From this time he became one of their family physicians . With all this increase of consequence , their habits were much the same . The happiness and improvement of the children was the ...
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... Dr Fulton closed his account for the year , his expenses exactly met his income . LIVING BEYOND THE MEANS . A new era now opens on the married life of Frank Fulton and his wife . The first period of economical living WITHIN THEIR MEANS ...
... Dr Fulton closed his account for the year , his expenses exactly met his income . LIVING BEYOND THE MEANS . A new era now opens on the married life of Frank Fulton and his wife . The first period of economical living WITHIN THEIR MEANS ...
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... Dr and Mrs Fulton as they prepared for the occupation of their new abode . As it was a thing for a considerable period , it was worth while to strain every nerve to furnish and lay it out in the best manner . Mrs Bradish had very kindly ...
... Dr and Mrs Fulton as they prepared for the occupation of their new abode . As it was a thing for a considerable period , it was worth while to strain every nerve to furnish and lay it out in the best manner . Mrs Bradish had very kindly ...
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... Dr Fulton might be sent for . Before the message could have reached him , his breath had departed . ' You see , Jane , ' said Frank , ' that if I had been at home , it would have been too late . ' That But what reasoning can stifle self ...
... Dr Fulton might be sent for . Before the message could have reached him , his breath had departed . ' You see , Jane , ' said Frank , ' that if I had been at home , it would have been too late . ' That But what reasoning can stifle self ...
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Admiral de Coligny Andrayne army began benevolent bite bonnie Braes busk called Catholic child Confalonieri daughter dear death distress door Dr Fulton Duke Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans eggs Eustache eyes fangs father feelings felt frae France Frank French friends girl grief hand happy head heard heart Helen Gray Henry hope Huguenots Jacobin Club Jane Jean Vigier Jeanne Jeanne d'Albret Jessie Jessie's kind king of Navarre lady League length living looked Louis Louis XVI maun means mind Minghini Monsieur Belin morning mother Napoleon never night noble Paris Pauline persons poor prince Prince of Condé prison Protestants reptile Robin Saint-Servan Salvotti seemed serpents shew sister snake St Germain-en-Laye suffering Sully thee thou thought tion Todlaw Mains took Uncle Joshua viper whilst wife woman words Yarrow young Logie
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Page 21 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now — upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Page 5 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 22 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 29 - ... grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Page 5 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Page 2 - Flows Yarrow sweet ? as sweet, as sweet flows Tweed, As green its grass, its gowan as yellow, As sweet smells on its braes the birk, The apple frae the rock as mellow.
Page 22 - Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron, They hae laid a' right sair on me ; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon dark and dreirie.
Page 4 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Page 1 - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.