Tales of My Landlord: 1st serSamuel H. Parker, 1836 |
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... poor unfortunate man's name was David Ritchie , a native of Tweeddale . He was the son of a labourer in the slate - quarries of Stobo , and must have been born in the mis - shapen form which he exhibited , though he sometimes imputed it ...
... poor unfortunate man's name was David Ritchie , a native of Tweeddale . He was the son of a labourer in the slate - quarries of Stobo , and must have been born in the mis - shapen form which he exhibited , though he sometimes imputed it ...
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... poor David might have lost his edifice by mistaking the property where he had erected it . Of course , the proprietor entertained no idea of exacting such a for- feiture , but readily sanctioned the harmless encroach- ment . The ...
... poor David might have lost his edifice by mistaking the property where he had erected it . Of course , the proprietor entertained no idea of exacting such a for- feiture , but readily sanctioned the harmless encroach- ment . The ...
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... poor man , whose misanthropy was founded in a sense of his own preternatural deformity , had yet his own particular enjoyments . Driven into solitude , he became an admirer of the beauties of nature . His garden , which he sedulously ...
... poor man , whose misanthropy was founded in a sense of his own preternatural deformity , had yet his own particular enjoyments . Driven into solitude , he became an admirer of the beauties of nature . His garden , which he sedulously ...
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... poor and ignorant , as well as all the children , in the neighbourhood , held him to be what is called uncanny . He himself did not altogether discourage the idea ; it enlarged his very limited circle of power , and in so far gratified ...
... poor and ignorant , as well as all the children , in the neighbourhood , held him to be what is called uncanny . He himself did not altogether discourage the idea ; it enlarged his very limited circle of power , and in so far gratified ...
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... poor woman to inquiries which gave her pain . When pressed about her brother's peculiarities , she asked , in her turn , why they would not permit the dead to rest ? To others , who pressed for some account of her parents , she answered ...
... poor woman to inquiries which gave her pain . When pressed about her brother's peculiarities , she asked , in her turn , why they would not permit the dead to rest ? To others , who pressed for some account of her parents , she answered ...
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Página 292 - Nothing more, my good mother," said Morton ; and they parted for the evening. Morton recommended himself to Heaven, threw himself on the bed, heard, between sleeping and waking, the trampling of the dragoon horses at the riders' return from their patrol, and then slept soundly after such painful agitation.
Página 48 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Página 17 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Página 171 - ... stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned. Motives of the most sincere, though fanciful, devotion induced the old man to dedicate so many years of existence to perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of the church.
Página 180 - It was suspended to a pole, and served for a mark, at which the competitors discharged their fusees and carabines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Página 90 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Página 181 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 54 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 165 - ... moment of dismission, whose feelings are not so obvious to the eye of the spectator, or so apt to receive his sympathy. I mean the teacher himself, who, stunned with the hum, and suffocated with the closeness of his schoolroom, has spent the whole day (himself against a host) in controlling petulance, exciting indifference to action, striving to enlighten stupidity, and labouring to soften obstinacy...
Página 179 - Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...