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... mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea- beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were intersected with creeks , and small ...
... mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea- beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were intersected with creeks , and small ...
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... mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if ever he possessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of countenance formed the only remarkable expression of his features , although they were rather handsome than otherwise . In fact his ...
... mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if ever he possessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of countenance formed the only remarkable expression of his features , although they were rather handsome than otherwise . In fact his ...
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... mind- ed nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse - racing . These occupations encroach- ed , in their opinion , upon the article of Ellan- gowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gra- dually to estrange himself ...
... mind- ed nothing but cock - fighting , hunting , coursing , and horse - racing . These occupations encroach- ed , in their opinion , upon the article of Ellan- gowan's gentry , and he found it necessary gra- dually to estrange himself ...
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... minds what a puir body does » → Ped- lars , gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured in his kitchen , and the laird , who was « nae nice body , " but a thorough gossip , bike most ...
... minds what a puir body does » → Ped- lars , gypsies , tinkers , vagrants of all descriptions , roosted about his outhouses , or harboured in his kitchen , and the laird , who was « nae nice body , " but a thorough gossip , bike most ...
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... mind , that the results exactly corresponded , was vividly and indelibly strong . He could not help feeling surprise at a coin- cidence so singular and unexpected . << Does the devil mingle in the dance , to avenge himself for our ...
... mind , that the results exactly corresponded , was vividly and indelibly strong . He could not help feeling surprise at a coin- cidence so singular and unexpected . << Does the devil mingle in the dance , to avenge himself for our ...
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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.