Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell BaillieJ. Pillans, 1822 - 170 עמודים |
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advice affairs affection affliction ALEXANDER COCHRANE amongst appeared BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD Bishop Burnet BOOKS ON SCOTLAND Bourdeaux brother character cheerfulness COCHRANE OF BOSTON constant creditores dance daughter dear death debt desire died distress Earl of Marchmont earnestly eldest father freinds friends gave give grandfather grandsons greatest happy heart Holland HONOURABLE GEORGE BAILLIE hope humour Iliad knew LADY GRISELL BAILLIE Lady Hervey Lady Murray Lady Stanhope Lepel letters lived London Lord Binning MEMOIRS mind mirth months MURRAY OF STANHOPE Murray's Naples necessary never night obliged occasion payd PETER WALLACE pleased pleasure Polwarth Prince of Orange rest RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE SCOTLAND AND SCOTTISH SCOTTISH LITERATURE sent servant sion Sir Patrick Home sister sorrow Tatler tenderness ther thing THOMAS BURNET thought tion took trifling trouble uneasy whole family writ
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עמוד 5 - And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
עמוד 42 - ... jokes than grievances. The professors, and men of learning in the place, came often to see my grandfather. The best entertainment he could give them, was a glass of alabast beer, which was a better kind of ale than common. He sent his son Andrew, the late Lord Kimmerghame, a boy, to draw some for them in the cellar : he brought it up with great diligence ; but in the other hand the spiket of the barrel. My grandfather said, "Andrew, what is that in your hand?
עמוד 39 - English, &c. j and my grandmother taught them what was necessary on her part. Thus he employed and diverted himself all the time he was there, not being able to afford putting them to school ; and my mother, when she had a moment's time, took a lesson with the rest, in French and Dutch, and also diverted herself with music. I have now...
עמוד 31 - Cross, and that every body was sorry, though they durst not shew it; as all intercourse by letters was dangerous, it was the first notice they had of it; and the more shocking, that it was not expected. They immediately set about preparing for my grandfather's going away. My mother...
עמוד 39 - ... the sisters, about their different occupations. Every morning before six, my mother lighted her father's fire in his study, then waked him ; (he was ever a good sleeper, which blessing, among many others, she inherited from him) ; then got him, what he usually took as soon as he got up, warn!
עמוד 27 - She at that time had a terror for a church-yard, especially in the dark, as is not uncommon af her age, by idle nursery stories ; but when engaged by concern for her father, she stumbled over the graves every night alone, without fear of any kind entering her thoughts, but for soldiers, and parties in search of him, which the least noise or motion of a leaf put her in terror for.
עמוד 26 - By the assistance of this man they got a bed and bed-clothes carried in the night to the burying-place, a vault under ground at Polwarth church, a mile from the house, where he was concealed a month, and had only for light an open slit at one end, through which nobody could see what was below. She went every night by herself, at midnight, to carry him victuals and drink, and stayed with him as long as she could to get home before day.
עמוד 40 - ... there, not being able to afford putting them to school ; and my mother, when she had a moment's time, took a lesson with the rest, in French and Dutch, and also diverted herself with music. I have now a book of songs of her writing when there ; many of them interrupted, half writ, some broke off in D the middle of a sentence.
עמוד 38 - Rucar*), now in my custody, and most valuable. My aunt played and sung well, and had a great deal of life and humour, but no turn to business. Though my mother had the same qualifications, and liked it as well as she did, she was forced to drudge ; and many johes used to Pass betwixt the sisters about their different occupations"— P.
עמוד 27 - ... engaged by concern for her father, she stumbled over the graves every night alone, without fear of any kind entering her thoughts, but for soldiers and parties in search of him, which the least noise or motion of a leaf put her in terror for. The minister's house was near the church ; the first night she went, his dogs kept such a barking, as put her in the utmost fear of a discovery ; my grandmother sent for the minister the next day, and, under pretence of a mad dog, got him to hang all his...