A Noble LifeTauchnitz, 1866 - 286 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexander Cardross answer baby bairn beautiful Bruce-Montgomerie Cairnforth Castle Campbell Captain Bruce carriage CHARLES EDWARD STUART child clachan cousin dear delight Duncan Earl of Cairnforth Earl's Edinburgh everything eyes face father feel felt friends glad Hamilton hand happy head heart heir Helen Bruce Helen Cardross Helen loved helpless knew lassie last Earl letter little chair live Loch Beg looked Lord Cairn Lord Cairnforth Malcolm Malcolm Campbell Manse maun Menteith mind minister minister's Miss Cardross morning mother nature ness never night Noble noticed once painful papa parish perhaps poor little Earl quiet replied round scarcely Scotch Scotland seemed silent smile soft eyes sometimes sort soul speak strange STUART MONTGOMERIE sweet talk tell tender thing thought told took trouble walked watching whole wish woman wonder ye ken young
Popular passages
Page 127 - 'When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me: " 'The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 10 - in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die, And Thou
Page 159 - Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart which, if believed, Had blest one's life with true believing.
Page 65 - Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men,
Page 248 - Would God that I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son — my son!
Page 94 - ate as if they had never eaten in their lives before, and drank
Page 167 - must have in it not only submission but resistance; the fighting against evil and in defence of good; the struggle with divine help to overcome evil with good: and finally the determination not to sit down tamely to misery, but to strive after