 This was a trying case: the father seemed incapable of giving direction, and that the threshold of Martindale Castle should be violated by the heretical step of a dissenting clergyman was matter of horror to its orthodox owner. He had seen the famous...  Waverley novels. (Library ed.). - Page 57by sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 550 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case — the father seemed incapable of giving direction ; and...Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other, ride in triumph through the court-door when Martindale was surrendered ; and the bitterness of that hour had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1875 - 518 pages
...compassionated the sorrows of his neighbour, that he entirely forgot his being a Presbyterian, until This was a trying case—the father seemed incapable...Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other, ride in triumph through the court-door when Martindale was surrendered ; and the bitterness of that hour had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 734 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case — the father seemed incapable of giving direction ; and...Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other, ride in triumph through the court-door when Martindale was surrendered ; and the bitterness of that hour had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 534 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case — the father seemed incapable of giving direction ; and...Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other, ride in triumph through the court-door when Martindale was surrendered ; and the bitterness of that hour had... | |
 | George Nelson Godwin - 1882 - 282 pages
...Stonehenge, said that the sword contained all the laws of England, and at Naseby rode from rank to rank " with a Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other," exhorting the men to do their duty. At the siege of Bridgewater he " improved the Sunday as much by... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1885 - 458 pages
...influence and of large circulation, representing the Baptist missionary as fighting against the Germans with a Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other. All who know the history of this mission will at once repudiate the idea. It is of Alfred Saker, the... | |
 | W. P. F. Ljunggren - 1893 - 178 pages
...mortal terror lest some evil should befall this man. (Reade, Read. r68'i. That the threshold of M. Castle should be violated by the heretical step of...clergyman was matter of horror to its orthodox owner. (Scott, 1'ev. ot 1'. I, 62). 1 was in a constant fright lest my nurse should betray me. (Marryat, Val.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1896 - 686 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case : the father seemed incapable of giving direction, and that...violated by the heretical step of a dissenting clergyman wras matter of horror to its orthodox owner. He had seen the famous Hugh Peters, with a Bible in one... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 1012 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case ; the father seemed incapable of giving direction, and that the threshold of Martindale Castlt •honld be violated by the heretical step of a dissenting clergyman was matter of horror to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 684 pages
...that the infant should be christened by a teacher of that persuasion. This was a trying case — the father seemed incapable of giving direction ; and...Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other, ride in triumph through the court-door when Martindale was surrendered ; and the bitterness of that hour had... | |
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