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... Kennedy , a super- visor , or riding - officer belonging to the customs , who had of late become intimate at the Place , and of whom we shall have more to say in the next chapter . Mr Bertram himself chose that day to make a visit to a ...
... Kennedy , a super- visor , or riding - officer belonging to the customs , who had of late become intimate at the Place , and of whom we shall have more to say in the next chapter . Mr Bertram himself chose that day to make a visit to a ...
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... Kennedy , already named in our narrative ; a stout , resolute , and active man , who had made seizures to a great amount , and was proportionally hated by those who had an inte- rest in 84 GUY MANNERING . CHAPTER IX. ...
... Kennedy , already named in our narrative ; a stout , resolute , and active man , who had made seizures to a great amount , and was proportionally hated by those who had an inte- rest in 84 GUY MANNERING . CHAPTER IX. ...
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... Kennedy was a frequent and always an acceptable guest . His vivacity relieved Mr Bertram of the trouble of thought , and the labour which it cost him to support a detailed communication of ideas ; while the daring and dangerous exploits ...
... Kennedy was a frequent and always an acceptable guest . His vivacity relieved Mr Bertram of the trouble of thought , and the labour which it cost him to support a detailed communication of ideas ; while the daring and dangerous exploits ...
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... Kennedy , armed with a warrant from El- langowan , and supported by some of the Laird's people who knew the country , and by a party of military , poured down upon the kegs , bales , and bags , and , after a desperate affray , in which ...
... Kennedy , armed with a warrant from El- langowan , and supported by some of the Laird's people who knew the country , and by a party of military , poured down upon the kegs , bales , and bags , and , after a desperate affray , in which ...
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... Kennedy says , that Whit- sunday would kill Martinmas , and be hanged for the murder for there I have got a letter about that interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at the Place yet wi ' a boddle of rent , nor will not ...
... Kennedy says , that Whit- sunday would kill Martinmas , and be hanged for the murder for there I have got a letter about that interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at the Place yet wi ' a boddle of rent , nor will not ...
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Página 150 - 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 31 - 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 160 - 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 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Página 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Página 55 - 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 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Página 41 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life.
Página 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.