The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volum 19R. Cadell, 1835 |
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... reasons for preser- ving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us . We can , however , conceive many reasons for a writer observing this sort of mystery ; not to mention that it has certainly had its effect in keep- ing up ...
... reasons for preser- ving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us . We can , however , conceive many reasons for a writer observing this sort of mystery ; not to mention that it has certainly had its effect in keep- ing up ...
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... reason to believe that the Covenanters had not learned mercy in the school of persecution . It was perhaps not to be expected from a people proscribed and persecuted , having their spirits embittered by the most severe personal ...
... reason to believe that the Covenanters had not learned mercy in the school of persecution . It was perhaps not to be expected from a people proscribed and persecuted , having their spirits embittered by the most severe personal ...
Pàgina 50
... reason might teach this ; for what master having servants and putting them to do his work , would take such a slight at his servants ' hands as to do a part of his work , and come and say to the master , that it is not necessary to do ...
... reason might teach this ; for what master having servants and putting them to do his work , would take such a slight at his servants ' hands as to do a part of his work , and come and say to the master , that it is not necessary to do ...
Pàgina 51
... reason , recriminated upon their adversaries that they meant , under pretence of establishing the liberty and independence of the kirk , altogether to disown allegiance to the govern- ment . The author of Old Mortality has drawn a ...
... reason , recriminated upon their adversaries that they meant , under pretence of establishing the liberty and independence of the kirk , altogether to disown allegiance to the govern- ment . The author of Old Mortality has drawn a ...
Pàgina 58
... reason given for this unexpected change of conduct is Burley's having witnessed Morton's gallant behaviour at Bothwell bridge . But we consider the motive as inadequate , and the incident as impro- bable . Morton being on shipboard when ...
... reason given for this unexpected change of conduct is Burley's having witnessed Morton's gallant behaviour at Bothwell bridge . But we consider the motive as inadequate , and the incident as impro- bable . Morton being on shipboard when ...
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Pàgina 133 - France came in sight of the English his blood began to boil, and he cried out to his marshals, "Order the Genoese forward, and- begin the battle, in the name of God and St. Denis.
Pàgina 87 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Pàgina 331 - I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at two sittings. By this concession, he will at once terminate the only two differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal matters.
Pàgina 197 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
Pàgina 29 - ... moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Pàgina 134 - They hooted a third time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed. When the Genoese felt these arrows, which pierced their arms, heads, and through their...
Pàgina 332 - D—n my commission,' said the warlike chaplain, throwing it towards his colonel. It may easily be supposed that the matter was only remembered as a good jest; but the future historian of Rome shared the honours and dangers of that dreadful day, where, according to the account of the French themselves, ' the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.
Pàgina 134 - ... some of them cut the strings of their crossbows, others flung them on the ground, and all turned about, and retreated, quite discomfited. The French had a large body of men-at-arms on horseback, richly dressed, to support the Genoese. *' The King of France, seeing them thus fell back, cried out, * Kill me those scoundrels; for they stop up our road, without any reason.
Pàgina 132 - There were of the Genoese crossbows about a fifteen thousand, but they were so weary of going afoot that day a six leagues armed with their crossbows, that they said to their constables, 'We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deed of arms; we have more need of rest.
Pàgina 301 - In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion, at least, the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong.