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Sir Walter Scott. OF PERTH AND OTHER CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE , INCLUDING THE HIGHLAND WIDOW BY Sir Walter Scott , bart Cout bien on Ghe Riverside Press BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1923 to ...
Sir Walter Scott. OF PERTH AND OTHER CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE , INCLUDING THE HIGHLAND WIDOW BY Sir Walter Scott , bart Cout bien on Ghe Riverside Press BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1923 to ...
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... Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains still carried their pretensions . The well - authenticated fact of two powerful clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old ...
... Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains still carried their pretensions . The well - authenticated fact of two powerful clans having deputed each thirty champions to fight out a quarrel of old ...
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... Highland blood , forsooth , is too gentle to lay a trencher or spread a napkin , and he expects to enter our ancient and honourable craft without duly waiting and tending upon his master and teacher in all matters of lawful obedience ...
... Highland blood , forsooth , is too gentle to lay a trencher or spread a napkin , and he expects to enter our ancient and honourable craft without duly waiting and tending upon his master and teacher in all matters of lawful obedience ...
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... Highland customer . Henry went on without paying any attention to him . ' I sold at high prices some swords and whingers when I was at Edinburgh . They expect war there ; and if it please God to send it , my merchandise will be worth ...
... Highland customer . Henry went on without paying any attention to him . ' I sold at high prices some swords and whingers when I was at Edinburgh . They expect war there ; and if it please God to send it , my merchandise will be worth ...
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... Highland cateran , 1 whom it is my curse to be cumbered with ; but he shall go back to his glens to - morrow , or taste the tolbooth of the burgh . An assault upon the life of his master's guest in his master's house ! It breaks all ...
... Highland cateran , 1 whom it is my curse to be cumbered with ; but he shall go back to his glens to - morrow , or taste the tolbooth of the burgh . An assault upon the life of his master's guest in his master's house ! It breaks all ...
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Page 203 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 460 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...