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Page v
... person , according to old John Mac - Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he ...
... person , according to old John Mac - Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he ...
Page xii
... person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
... person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
Page xiv
... person in one of the early numbers of Black- wood's Magazine , to the following purpose : ' My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm , who had great sway among her tribe . She was quite a Meg Merrilies , and possessed the savage ...
... person in one of the early numbers of Black- wood's Magazine , to the following purpose : ' My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm , who had great sway among her tribe . She was quite a Meg Merrilies , and possessed the savage ...
Page xvi
... person than he cared to risk in such society . How- ever , being naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry ...
... person than he cared to risk in such society . How- ever , being naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry ...
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... person . " - Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56 . How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken , in his conjecture the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description ...
... person . " - Blackwood's Magazine , vol . i . p . 56 . How far Blackwood's ingenious correspondent was right , how far mistaken , in his conjecture the reader has been informed . To pass to a character of a very different description ...
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