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... Baron of Brad wardine of the petty tres- passes of the Highlanders upon trifling articles of property , he has borne hard , and unjustly so , upon their national char- acter . Nothing could be farther from his wish or intention . The ...
... Baron of Brad wardine of the petty tres- passes of the Highlanders upon trifling articles of property , he has borne hard , and unjustly so , upon their national char- acter . Nothing could be farther from his wish or intention . The ...
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... Baron of Bradwardine , for he was generally so called in Scotland ( although his intimates , from his place of resi- dence , used to denominate him Tully - Veolan , or more famil- iarly , Tully ) , no sooner stood rectus in curia than ...
... Baron of Bradwardine , for he was generally so called in Scotland ( although his intimates , from his place of resi- dence , used to denominate him Tully - Veolan , or more famil- iarly , Tully ) , no sooner stood rectus in curia than ...
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... . That , as well as the house , is , however , of smaller di- men - ions than the Baron of Bradwardine's mansion and garden are presumed to have been . and was fenced along the top by a stone parapet 45 CHAPTER IX ...
... . That , as well as the house , is , however , of smaller di- men - ions than the Baron of Bradwardine's mansion and garden are presumed to have been . and was fenced along the top by a stone parapet 45 CHAPTER IX ...
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... Baron , without stopping in any intermediate apartment , conducted his guest through several into the great dining parlor , wain- scoted with black oak , and hung round with the pictures of his ancestry , where a table was set forth in ...
... Baron , without stopping in any intermediate apartment , conducted his guest through several into the great dining parlor , wain- scoted with black oak , and hung round with the pictures of his ancestry , where a table was set forth in ...
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... baron- bailie and doer , Mr. Duncan Macwheeble , is the fourth on our list . There is a question , owing to the incertitude of ancient orthography , whether he belongs to the clan of Wheedle or of Quibble , but both have produced ...
... baron- bailie and doer , Mr. Duncan Macwheeble , is the fourth on our list . There is a question , owing to the incertitude of ancient orthography , whether he belongs to the clan of Wheedle or of Quibble , but both have produced ...
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answered appeared arms attended auld Bailie Baron Bradwardine Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favor feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora followed frae gentleman Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering gypsey hand Hatteraick head heard hero Highland honor hope horse house of Stuart Jacobites Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pleydell poor portmanteau prisoner rendered replied returned Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert Spontoon stranger supposed tell there's thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich Ian Vohr voice wardine Waverley-Honor Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne young Hazlewood
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Página 94 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 19 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 323 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Página 33 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 431 - The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.
Página 39 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Página 88 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Página 22 - ... that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring.
Página 432 - Gaelic) to reside, during my childhood and youth, among persons of the above description ; and now, for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes, and ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of the incidents which I then received from those who were actors in them. Indeed, the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.
Página 108 - there is nothing in Perthshire that she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it,, unless it be too hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief!" " Common thief I — no such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.