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... morning , and the sports which usually closed the evening , might naturally be supposed to have a seductive effect . The preachers and proselytes of the more rigid presbyterians laboured , therefore , by caution , remonstrance , and ...
... morning , and the sports which usually closed the evening , might naturally be supposed to have a seductive effect . The preachers and proselytes of the more rigid presbyterians laboured , therefore , by caution , remonstrance , and ...
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... morning of the 5th of May 1679 , when our narrative commences . When the musters had been made , and duly reported , the young men , as was usual , were to mix in various sports , of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay , an ...
... morning of the 5th of May 1679 , when our narrative commences . When the musters had been made , and duly reported , the young men , as was usual , were to mix in various sports , of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay , an ...
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... morning of the eventful day , had mustered his troupe dorée before the iron gate of the tower , the mother of Cuddie Headrigg the ploughman appeared , loaded with the jack - boots , buff coat , and other accou- trements which had been ...
... morning of the eventful day , had mustered his troupe dorée before the iron gate of the tower , the mother of Cuddie Headrigg the ploughman appeared , loaded with the jack - boots , buff coat , and other accou- trements which had been ...
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... morning , and then you may find your way through the Drake Moss . When I heard the awfu ' threatenings o ' the op- pressors , I e'en took my cloak about me , and sate down by the wayside , to warn ony of our puir scattered remnant that ...
... morning , and then you may find your way through the Drake Moss . When I heard the awfu ' threatenings o ' the op- pressors , I e'en took my cloak about me , and sate down by the wayside , to warn ony of our puir scattered remnant that ...
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... morning , ere I depart ? I am not a man whose bowels yearn after kindred and friends of this world . When I put my hand to the plough , I entered into a covenant with my worldly affections that I should not look back on the things I ...
... morning , ere I depart ? I am not a man whose bowels yearn after kindred and friends of this world . When I put my hand to the plough , I entered into a covenant with my worldly affections that I should not look back on the things I ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Ailie answered Morton arms army auld blood body Bothwell Burley called Cameronians canna carabines Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet council Covenant Covenanters Cuddie death dinna dragoons Duke Duke of Monmouth e'en enemy eneugh Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Halliday hand hath head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny honour horse insurgents Jenny Dennison John Gudyill Kettledrummle King Lady Margaret Bellenden leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden maun Mause Milnwood Miss Bellenden mither moderate party morning muckle never occasion Old Mortality onything ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir replied Morton roundhead Scotland seemed Sergeant soldiers speak suld sword thae thee thou Tillietudlem Tower troopers turned voice weel whig woman word ye'll young
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Página 251 - 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 159 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 306 - Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 159 - But thus saith the LORD, 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 265 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 188 - 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 267 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear— that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
Página 67 - Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music...
Página 250 - 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...
Página 68 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheeling-hill.