Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: Bart |
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... heard , run a narrow risk of being hanged , had it not been for the inter- ference of Anne , Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth . Beardie's elder brother , William Scott of Raeburn , my great - granduncle , was killed about the age of ...
... heard , run a narrow risk of being hanged , had it not been for the inter- ference of Anne , Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth . Beardie's elder brother , William Scott of Raeburn , my great - granduncle , was killed about the age of ...
Page 15
... heard news at no other time ) to hear of the defeat of Washington , as if I had had some deep and per- sonal cause of antipathy to him . I know not how this was combined with a very strong prejudice in favour of the Stuart family ...
... heard news at no other time ) to hear of the defeat of Washington , as if I had had some deep and per- sonal cause of antipathy to him . I know not how this was combined with a very strong prejudice in favour of the Stuart family ...
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... heard of the Pragmatic Sanction . " - " Not heard of the Pragmatic Sanction ! said John Davidson ; " I would like to see that ; " and with a voice of thunder , he asked his son the fatal question . young D. modestly allowed he knew ...
... heard of the Pragmatic Sanction . " - " Not heard of the Pragmatic Sanction ! said John Davidson ; " I would like to see that ; " and with a voice of thunder , he asked his son the fatal question . young D. modestly allowed he knew ...
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... heard the inferior classes , and I spouted the speech of Galgacus at the public examination , which did not make the less im- pression on the audience that few of them probably under- stood one word of it . In the mean while my ...
... heard the inferior classes , and I spouted the speech of Galgacus at the public examination , which did not make the less im- pression on the audience that few of them probably under- stood one word of it . In the mean while my ...
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... heard him " exult in the prospect of drawing his claymore once more before he died , ' when Paul Jones threatened the descent on Edinburgh ; which oc- curred in September 1779. The eager delight with which the young apprentice now ...
... heard him " exult in the prospect of drawing his claymore once more before he died , ' when Paul Jones threatened the descent on Edinburgh ; which oc- curred in September 1779. The eager delight with which the young apprentice now ...
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