Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The idea of this work is happily conceived, and carried into effect, in the two volumes before us, with no little judgment and ability. The subject is one interesting, useful, and important; and the author was in many respects well qualified to deal with it by his talents, his...
"Dear Sir,--To a feeling heart it must always be painful to give pain to another, and (though I am sure unconsciously) you have given the _greatest_ pain to poor Mr Hazeldean an...
2. c. 85) enacting that the shooting at a person, not with premeditatedmalice, but deliberately, and causing a bodily injury dangerous to life, should be a capital offence; and that whoever should shoot any person with intent to commit murder, or t...
5. CHAPTER XII.The card-table was set out in the drawing-room at Hazeldean Hall; though the little party were still lingering in the deep recess of the large bay window--which (in itself of di...
4. CHAPTER XI.The Squire's carpenters were taken from the park pales, and set to work at the parish stocks. Then came the painter and coloured them a beautiful dark blue, with a white border-...
3. CHAPTER X.In my next chapter I shall present Squire Hazeldean in patriarchal state--not exactly under the fig-tree he has planted, but before the stocks he has reconstructed.--Squire Haze...
1. PART I.The idea of this work is happily conceived, and carried into effect, in the two volumes before us, with no little judgment and ability. The subject is one interesting, useful, a...