Periodical Criticism, Band 4Robert Cadell, 1835 |
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... father . Their obedience was grounded on the same law of nature , and a breach of it was re- garded as equally ... father's side in the hour of peril . Upon this simple principle rests the whole doctrine of clan- ship ; and although the ...
... father . Their obedience was grounded on the same law of nature , and a breach of it was re- garded as equally ... father's side in the hour of peril . Upon this simple principle rests the whole doctrine of clan- ship ; and although the ...
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... fathers had ranked among the tacksmen or nobility of the clan . This This change , though frequent , did not uniformly take place . In the case of a very powerful chief , or of one who had an especial affection for a son or brother , a ...
... fathers had ranked among the tacksmen or nobility of the clan . This This change , though frequent , did not uniformly take place . In the case of a very powerful chief , or of one who had an especial affection for a son or brother , a ...
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... father of the clan . In like manner it was a leading principle that the clan , from the highest to the lowest , were all members of one family , bearing the same name , and connected in blood with the chief . He was ex- pected ...
... father of the clan . In like manner it was a leading principle that the clan , from the highest to the lowest , were all members of one family , bearing the same name , and connected in blood with the chief . He was ex- pected ...
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... father's clan . So sacred was the claim of blood for blood , that the execution of the poor fellow through whose negligence this mischance had happened was judg- ed indispensable by the council of chiefs . The ac- cident was of the ...
... father's clan . So sacred was the claim of blood for blood , that the execution of the poor fellow through whose negligence this mischance had happened was judg- ed indispensable by the council of chiefs . The ac- cident was of the ...
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... father's time . With the civil wars the Highlanders assumed a new and more distinguished character ; and for the first time in our history showed a marked and dis- tinguished superiority in the use of arms over their Lowland fellow ...
... father's time . With the civil wars the Highlanders assumed a new and more distinguished character ; and for the first time in our history showed a marked and dis- tinguished superiority in the use of arms over their Lowland fellow ...
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Seite 177 - 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!
Seite 144 - But that which did please me beyond any thing in the whole world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...
Seite 111 - 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...
Seite 111 - ... the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Seite 102 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Seite 100 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Seite 127 - At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty ; and, indeed, was fine all over ; and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering ; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses...
Seite 14 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master...
Seite 113 - 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.
Seite 137 - Eglington, till it made us all burst ; but I did wonder to have the Bishop at this time to make himself sport with things of this kind, but I perceive it was shown him as a rarity. And he took care to have the room-door shut, but there were about twenty gentlemen there : and myself infinitely pleased with the novelty.