Waverley Novels: Tales of My Landlord, Second Series: the Heart of Mid-Lothian
Waverley Novels: Tales of My Landlord, Second Series: the Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It may be here observed, that some of the milder class of Cameronians made a distinction between the two sexes dancing separately, and allowed of it as a healthy and not unlawful exercise ; but when men and women ming- led in sport, it was then called promiscuous, dancing, and considered as a scan- dalous enormity.
I& Page 118. This custom, of making a mark by folding a leaf in th« party's Bible when a solemn resolution is formed, is still held to be, in some^ sense, an appeal to Heaven for... his or her sincerity.
19. Page 133^ Nicol Muschat, a debauched and profligate wretch, hav- ing conceived a hatred against his wife, entered into a conspiracy with anoth- er brutal libertine and gambler^ named Campbell of Bumbank, (repeatedly m'entioned in Pennycuick's satirical poems oi the time,) by which Uampbell undertook to destroy the woman's character, so as to enable Muschat,. on fialse pretences, to obtain a divorce from her. The brutal devices to which these worthy accomplices resorted for that purpose having failed^ th^ en- deavoured to destroy her by administering medicine of a dangerous kind, and in extraordinary quantities This purpose also failing, Nicol Muschat, or Muschet, did finally, on the 17th October, 1720.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
69.
It may be here observed, that some of the milder class of Cameronians made a distinction between the two sexes dancing separately, and allowed of it as a healthy and not unlawful exercise ; but when men and women ming- led in sport, it was then called promiscuous, dancing, and considered as a scan- dalous enormity.
I& Page 118. This custom, of making a mark by folding a leaf in th« party's Bible when a solemn resolution is formed, is still held to be, in some^ sense, an appeal to Heaven for... his or her sincerity.
19. Page 133^ Nicol Muschat, a debauched and profligate wretch, hav- ing conceived a hatred against his wife, entered into a conspiracy with anoth- er brutal libertine and gambler^ named Campbell of Bumbank, (repeatedly m'entioned in Pennycuick's satirical poems oi the time,) by which Uampbell undertook to destroy the woman's character, so as to enable Muschat,. on fialse pretences, to obtain a divorce from her. The brutal devices to which these worthy accomplices resorted for that purpose having failed^ th^ en- deavoured to destroy her by administering medicine of a dangerous kind, and in extraordinary quantities This purpose also failing, Nicol Muschat, or Muschet, did finally, on the 17th October, 1720.
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