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Page ix
... present con- stant evidence of the difficulties to which the crown was exposed , while the haughty house of Douglas all but overbalanced its authority on the Southern border , and the North was at the same time torn in pieces by the yet ...
... present con- stant evidence of the difficulties to which the crown was exposed , while the haughty house of Douglas all but overbalanced its authority on the Southern border , and the North was at the same time torn in pieces by the yet ...
Page xv
... present day . ' ( Sketches of the Highlanders , vol . i . p . 65. ) I have only to add , that the Second Series of Chronicles of the Canongate , with the chapter introductory which now follows , appeared in May 1828 , and had a favour ...
... present day . ' ( Sketches of the Highlanders , vol . i . p . 65. ) I have only to add , that the Second Series of Chronicles of the Canongate , with the chapter introductory which now follows , appeared in May 1828 , and had a favour ...
Page xvii
... present gracious sovereign.1 My long habitation in the neighbourhood , and the quiet respectability of my habits , have given me a sort of intimacy with good Mrs. Policy , the housekeeper in that most interesting part of the old ...
... present gracious sovereign.1 My long habitation in the neighbourhood , and the quiet respectability of my habits , have given me a sort of intimacy with good Mrs. Policy , the housekeeper in that most interesting part of the old ...
Page xix
... present occasion , as two or three inhabitants appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people ...
... present occasion , as two or three inhabitants appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people ...
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... present , not to be known or addressed in my own character ; but , as I am answerable to myself alone for my actions , I wear my incognito but for form's sake , and care little whether you see through it or not . ' He came on the right ...
... present , not to be known or addressed in my own character ; but , as I am answerable to myself alone for my actions , I wear my incognito but for form's sake , and care little whether you see through it or not . ' He came on the right ...
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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...