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... fact of his being at those periods a young man , whose love of excitement outran prudence . At one time , while deviating in Gallicia from the route indicated in his passport , and asking imprudent questions , he was arrested and ...
... fact of his being at those periods a young man , whose love of excitement outran prudence . At one time , while deviating in Gallicia from the route indicated in his passport , and asking imprudent questions , he was arrested and ...
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... fact , and that we should be judged by our own words . If our story proved consistent , and the result of his inquiries satisfactory , we should depart in peace ; but if the first proved inconsistent , and the latter unsatisfactory , he ...
... fact , and that we should be judged by our own words . If our story proved consistent , and the result of his inquiries satisfactory , we should depart in peace ; but if the first proved inconsistent , and the latter unsatisfactory , he ...
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... fact that James , who resided for a long time in Denmark and Norway , published nothing in favour of his mother , is a tolerable proof that nothing could be found . " Still all that is quoted above and much more could never entitle ...
... fact that James , who resided for a long time in Denmark and Norway , published nothing in favour of his mother , is a tolerable proof that nothing could be found . " Still all that is quoted above and much more could never entitle ...
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... fact . But this death will , for many reasons , be a weight upon my heart as long as I live . ' " Still it is a hopeless task , we suspect , to attempt convincing the generality of readers that Elizabeth was not , in all such protesta ...
... fact . But this death will , for many reasons , be a weight upon my heart as long as I live . ' " Still it is a hopeless task , we suspect , to attempt convincing the generality of readers that Elizabeth was not , in all such protesta ...
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... fact order of mind , a soldier - like frankness in these pages , which cannot escape the notice of the most superficial , and which inevitably recommends the author fully more as a man than a writer ; and whenever this happens by means ...
... fact order of mind , a soldier - like frankness in these pages , which cannot escape the notice of the most superficial , and which inevitably recommends the author fully more as a man than a writer ; and whenever this happens by means ...
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Página 243 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Página 262 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 293 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was; man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 245 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Página 74 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the...
Página 562 - ... but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for it ; it was to be seen no more than to be felt. He stood confounded, and I took possession of his place ; nor did he ever recover it, or ever, I believe, suspect who was the author of his wrong. Often in after-life has the sight of him smote me as I passed by him ; and often have I resolved to make him some reparation ; but it ended in good resolutions.
Página 560 - I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 74 - There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months ; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. But where, thought I, is the crew ? Their struggle has long been over — they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest — their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep ; silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Página 560 - He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on; it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. ' There's the mast gone,' says he ; * crash it goes! — they will all perish!' After his agitation, he turns to me. ' That is too melancholy,' says he; ' I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 574 - ... house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel usage to which her chintz was exposed. The Shepherd, however, remarked nothing of all this — dined heartily and drank freely, and, by jest, anecdote, and song, afforded plentiful merriment to the more civilized part of the company. As the liquor operated, his familiarity increased and strengthened ; from ' Mr. Scott,' he advanced to ' Sherra,' and thence to ' Scott,' 'Walter,' and 'Wattie,' — until, at supper, he [fairly convulsed the...