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Page v
... present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some ...
... present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some ...
Page x
... present in the room with him in bodily shape , and , potent with spirits of a melancholy cast , was impressing upon him the desperation of his state , and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career . Amid his ...
... present in the room with him in bodily shape , and , potent with spirits of a melancholy cast , was impressing upon him the desperation of his state , and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career . Amid his ...
Page xiii
... present to mortals , looking into futurity , the abyss of impenetrable darkness which it is the pleasure of the Creator it should offer to them . Were everything to happen in the ordinary train of events , the future would be subject to ...
... present to mortals , looking into futurity , the abyss of impenetrable darkness which it is the pleasure of the Creator it should offer to them . Were everything to happen in the ordinary train of events , the future would be subject to ...
Page xvi
... present , and only said , " The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circum- stances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other ...
... present , and only said , " The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circum- stances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other ...
Page xvii
... present writer : " C " The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the Yetholm clans . She was , we believe , a grand- daughter of the celebrated Jean Gordon , and was said to have much resembled her in appearance ...
... present writer : " C " The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the Yetholm clans . She was , we believe , a grand- daughter of the celebrated Jean Gordon , and was said to have much resembled her in appearance ...
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