The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 - France |
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... circumstance the young Chevalier , landed in Moidart , in the West High- lands , with seven attendants only ; and his presence was sufficient to summon about eighteen hundred men to his standard , even before the news of his arrival ...
... circumstance the young Chevalier , landed in Moidart , in the West High- lands , with seven attendants only ; and his presence was sufficient to summon about eighteen hundred men to his standard , even before the news of his arrival ...
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... circumstance doubtless tended to prolong among these separate tribes a species of govern- ment , the first that is known in the infancy of society , and which , in most instances , is altered or modified during an early period of its ...
... circumstance doubtless tended to prolong among these separate tribes a species of govern- ment , the first that is known in the infancy of society , and which , in most instances , is altered or modified during an early period of its ...
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... Circumstances I have put myself in at the tyme , and the great need I have of my own Men & followers wherever they may be found . Wherfor I thought fitt , seeing Cullodin is not at home , by this line to intreat you to put no stopp in ...
... Circumstances I have put myself in at the tyme , and the great need I have of my own Men & followers wherever they may be found . Wherfor I thought fitt , seeing Cullodin is not at home , by this line to intreat you to put no stopp in ...
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... circumstances , this rule was sometimes overlooked . Usurpations and revolu- tions also occasionally took place , as in larger prin- cipalities ; and sometimes the will of the clan , ex- cited by circumstances which displeased them in ...
... circumstances , this rule was sometimes overlooked . Usurpations and revolu- tions also occasionally took place , as in larger prin- cipalities ; and sometimes the will of the clan , ex- cited by circumstances which displeased them in ...
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... circumstances concurred to unite any number of chiefs in a common cause , 1 In some genealogies the MacNabs are claimed by the Mac- Alpines and MacGregors as descended from the same root with them . the mountain eruption broke out with ...
... circumstances concurred to unite any number of chiefs in a common cause , 1 In some genealogies the MacNabs are claimed by the Mac- Alpines and MacGregors as descended from the same root with them . the mountain eruption broke out with ...
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Page 175 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 109 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Page 328 - Habitus corporum varii, atque ex eo argumenta. Namque rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus Germanicam originem asseverant. Silurum colorati vultus, torti plerumque crines, et posita contra Hispania Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Page 114 - Knipp took us all in. and brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of 'Coelia' to-day very fine, and did it pretty well; I kissed her. and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.
Page 278 - ... it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other ; and, in science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light, — such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a...
Page 243 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Page 111 - Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Page 205 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Page 4 - Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : — " the common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here...
Page 140 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.