Chronicles of the Canongate. First series: The Highland widow. The two drovers. The surgeon's daughter, &cSanborn, Carter and Bazin, 1855 |
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... means been limited to the competence which I derived from in- heritance , with the moderate income of a professional situation . I bought , and built , and planted , and was considered by myself , as by the rest of the world , in the ...
... means been limited to the competence which I derived from in- heritance , with the moderate income of a professional situation . I bought , and built , and planted , and was considered by myself , as by the rest of the world , in the ...
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... means nor intention of copying the manners , or tracing the characters , of the persons concerned in the real story . Indeed , I may here state generally , that although I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delin- eation ...
... means nor intention of copying the manners , or tracing the characters , of the persons concerned in the real story . Indeed , I may here state generally , that although I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delin- eation ...
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... mean to dispute , that there were many excellent persons who thought differently from him , and he disclaimed the slightest idea of charging them with bigotry or hypocrisy on that account . He gave them full credit for their ten- der ...
... mean to dispute , that there were many excellent persons who thought differently from him , and he disclaimed the slightest idea of charging them with bigotry or hypocrisy on that account . He gave them full credit for their ten- der ...
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... means of comfort in the decline of life . That comes late ; and lasts but a short time ; after which they are left dependent . Their limbs fail - their teeth are loosened - their voice is lost- and they are left , after giving happiness ...
... means of comfort in the decline of life . That comes late ; and lasts but a short time ; after which they are left dependent . Their limbs fail - their teeth are loosened - their voice is lost- and they are left , after giving happiness ...
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... means of giving sleep to others . It was ungrateful and unkind , that those who had sacrificed their youth to our amusement should not receive the reward due to them , but should be reduced to hard fare in their old age . We cannot ...
... means of giving sleep to others . It was ungrateful and unkind , that those who had sacrificed their youth to our amusement should not receive the reward due to them , but should be reduced to hard fare in their old age . We cannot ...
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Page xxxvi - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope " — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution. Our appeal has been successful beyond our most sanguine expectations. The distinguished patronage conferred on us by your presence on this occasion, and the substantial support which your benevolence has so liberally afforded to our institution, must impress every member of the...
Page 172 - ... her humour. In the meantime she traced around him, with wavering steps, the propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun. At once, however, she stopped short, and exclaimed, in a voice of alarm and horror, "Grandson of my father, there is blood on your hand.
Page 203 - A young lady' of quality, who was present, very handsomely said, " Might not the son have justified the fault ?" My friend was much flattered by this compliment, which he never forgot. When in more than ordinary spirits, and talking of his journey in Scotland, he has called to me, " Boswell, what was it that the young lady of quality said of me at Sir Alexander Dick's ?" Nobody will doubt that I was happy in repeating it.
Page 44 - 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...
Page xxxiii - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Page xxxvi - The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 18 - In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Page 203 - Eglintoune's complimentary adoption of Dr. Johnson as her son ; for I unfortunately stated that her ladyship adopted him as her son, in consequence of her having been married the year after he was born. Dr. Johnson instantly corrected me. " Sir, don't you perceive that you are defaming the countess...