Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes..James Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - 371 páginas |
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... Kind- ness so well as by serving you , I will serve you , if possible , whether you will permit me or no ; the personal obligation , which you have this day laid me under , ( al- though , in common estimation , as great as : one human ...
... Kind- ness so well as by serving you , I will serve you , if possible , whether you will permit me or no ; the personal obligation , which you have this day laid me under , ( al- though , in common estimation , as great as : one human ...
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... kind to me . " .... Why , then , be sorry for five minutes , and then be glad again ; his chance to - day . may be ours to - morrow ; and what does it signify The next best thing to victory is honourable death , but it is a pis - aller ...
... kind to me . " .... Why , then , be sorry for five minutes , and then be glad again ; his chance to - day . may be ours to - morrow ; and what does it signify The next best thing to victory is honourable death , but it is a pis - aller ...
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... kind and gentle remonstrance for neglect of the writer's advice , respecting the dis- posal of his time during his leave of ab- sence , the renewal of which he reminded Captain Waverley would speedily expire . " Indeed , " the letter ...
... kind and gentle remonstrance for neglect of the writer's advice , respecting the dis- posal of his time during his leave of ab- sence , the renewal of which he reminded Captain Waverley would speedily expire . " Indeed , " the letter ...
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... must request of the reader to suppose , that this kind and disinterested purpose was concealed by the most cautious delicacy , studiously shunning the most distant approach to affectation . So that it was as unlike the usual 64 WAVERLEY .
... must request of the reader to suppose , that this kind and disinterested purpose was concealed by the most cautious delicacy , studiously shunning the most distant approach to affectation . So that it was as unlike the usual 64 WAVERLEY .
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... kind and description ; while , like many a mechanic of more in- genuity than steadiness , he would often unexpectedly , and without any apparent motive , abandon one plan , and go ear- nestly to work upon another , which was either ...
... kind and description ; while , like many a mechanic of more in- genuity than steadiness , he would often unexpectedly , and without any apparent motive , abandon one plan , and go ear- nestly to work upon another , which was either ...
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Alick answered arms auld Baillie Baron of Bradwardine battle of Preston Bodach Bradwar caliga called Captain Butler Carlisle Carlisle Castle castle CHAPTER Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot Common Moor court Davie dear Donald dragoons Duchran Duke of Cumberland Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora gentleman Glennaquoich hand happy heard Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart inclosures Ivor Jacobites Janet Lady Emily laird leave letter look Maccombich Macwheeble ment military mind Miss Bradwardine morning never night Nosebag party pass person poor Prince prisoner puir quarrel reader regiment Rose Bradwardine Royal Highness Scotland seemed shewed sion Sir Everard soldiers soon spirit Spontoon Stanley stood suppose tell thing thought tion troop Tully-Veolan turn verley Vich Ian Vohr ward wardine Waver Waverley-Honour Waverley's whilk wish words young
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Página 363 - This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice ; but also, many living examples of singular and disinterested attachment to the principles of loyalty which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and honour.
Página 280 - So choosing solitary to abide Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds, And hellish arts, from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.
Página 298 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Página 361 - The effects of the insurrection of 1 745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs...