THIS HUMBLE INDIVIDUAL PRACTISED IN REAL LIFE THE VIRTUES WITH WHICH FICTION HAS INVESTED THE IMAGINARY CHARACTER OF JEANIE DEANS; REFUSING THE SLIGHTEST DEPARTURE FROM VERACITY, EVEN TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS... Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Стр. 118авторы: John Gibson Lockhart - 1839Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Joseph Johnson - 1869 - Страниц: 320
...to save the life of her sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...which the time rendered as difficult as the motive was laudablecas; 3 Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with the love of truth and dear affection."... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1870 - Страниц: 444
...even to save the life of a sister, she neverthless showed her kindness and fortitude by rescuing her from the severity of the law ; at the expense of personal...when combined with love of truth and dear affection. Although, of course, it is treasonable to say so, I confess I think this inscription somewhat cumbrous... | |
| William Anderson (D.D.) - 1870 - Страниц: 392
...from veracity, even to save the life of her sister ; nevertheless showed her fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...rendered as difficult as the motive was laudable. Isabel was accused of the murder of her own child ! Poor Helen was called as the principal witness.... | |
| Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - Страниц: 520
...even to save the life of a sister : she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...rendered as difficult as the motive was laudable." It showed true genius, in the construction of " The Heart of Mid-Lothian," to resist the temptation... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - Страниц: 820
...kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal exertion, which the time rendered as difficult as the motive...when combined with love of truth and dear affection." DUMFRIES TO STRANRAER AND POHTPATRICK. By railway through Kirkcudbright and Wlgton shires. This route... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - Страниц: 1014
...THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS AND FORTITUDE, 1H RESCUING HER FROM THK SEVERITY OF THE LAW, AT THE EXPENSE OF PERSONAL EXERTIONS...for his forthcoming Tales ; and the conclusion is BO remarkable that I must copy it : — " The gentle reader 'a acquainted, that these are, in all probability,... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1875 - Страниц: 272
...to save the life of her sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...laudable. Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with the love of truth and dear affection ! " " Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and... | |
| Charles Bruce - 1875 - Страниц: 636
...to save the life of her sister. She nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...laudable. Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with the love of truth and dear affection. Thus lived and died Helen Walker. In her case virtue was indeed... | |
| Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper - 1876 - Страниц: 336
...from veracity, even to save the life of her sister, She nevertheless showed her Kindness and fortitude From the severity of the law, At the expense of personal...laudable. Respect the grave of poverty, When combined with the love of truth And dear affection. The parish of Irongray occupies a prominent place in the history... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1878 - Страниц: 880
...the severity of tlic law, at the expense of personal exertion, which the time rendered as dillicnlt as the motive was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty...when combined with love of truth and dear affection." DUMFRIES TO STRANRAER AND PORITATRICK. By railway through Kirkcudbright and Wigton shires. This route... | |
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