Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's... Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised - Страница 232по sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1839Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852 - 506 страници
...another article. Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Caddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine* for dighting...dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheeling-nill. Now, my leddy" " The woman would drive ony reasonable being daft ! " said Lady Margaret... | |
| Nahum Capen - 1852 - 594 страници
...ago, objected to her son's using what she called a "new-fangled machine for dighting the grain from the chaff ; thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for her ladyship's own particular use, by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayers," &c. 9 preeminently... | |
| Charles Linton - 1855 - 556 страници
...Mortality" will forget honest Mause Hcadrigg's indignation when it was proposed that her " son Cuddie should work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine for dighting...dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheeling hill." A route has just been successfully opened by Panama between the Atlantic and Pacific.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 630 страници
...another article. Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine* for dighting...will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship' s ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently... | |
| James Young Simpson - 1856 - 776 страници
...another article. Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a newfangled machine for dighting...by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular us« by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - 1856 - 470 страници
...corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence by raising wind for one's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting...dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send." Indeed, but for the fear of starvation, the Spnninrrl would abandon every thing to Providence. XERES.... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - 1856 - 466 страници
...are like old Manse Headrigg, opposed to innovations in agriculture — to all "new-fangled machines for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously...the will of Divine Providence by raising wind for one's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 548 страници
...guiltless of the machine so sacrilegious in the eyes of Mouse Ileadrigg, for raising wind for their ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for a dispensation of wind. And doubtless he did not put his less than small Greek to the task of teaching... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 540 страници
...it was proposed that her " son Cuddie should work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine for dightin' the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting...dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the shealing-hill." Scott, however, was obviously guilty of an anachronism in this passage, for the first... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 544 страници
...Cuddie should work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine for dightin' the corn frae the chaff, tluis impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence...dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the shealing-hill." Scott, however, was obviously guilty of an anachronism in this passage, for the first... | |
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