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" But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from... "
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism - Page 30
by Sir Walter Scott - 1835
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Tales of My Landlord,: Old mortality

Walter Scott - 1817 - 354 pages
...and repairing the emblims of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned. Motiv.es 6f the most sincere, though fanciful devotion, induced...the deceased warriors of the church. He considered hiftiself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to the eyea of posterity the decaying emblems...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriours of the church. He considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing, to the...
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Tales of My Landlord: 1st ser

Walter Scott - 1836 - 686 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from die grey stones, renewing widi his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...are usually adorned. Motives of the most sincere, Uiough fanciful devotion, induced the old man to dedicate so many years of existence to perform this...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

1849 - 600 pages
...stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of dealh with which these simple monuments are usually adorned....tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of ihe church. He considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to ihe eyes of posterity...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. " As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Novels, tales, and prose works of fiction

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. " As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 2

Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pages
...each minister and congregation whose house of prayer is enriched with ancient tombs will at once " perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of the church." For, further to borrow the beautiful words of Scott, they ought to consider themselves " as fulfilling...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

1849 - 602 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel y's аз fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the...
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The Monthly Christian spectator, Volume 9

1859 - 748 pages
...been surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned.' So, Mr. Editor, we will take a pilgrimage to these hallowed shrines, and ere decay's effacing fingers...
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Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and ...

Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pages
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. 5. As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country...
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