The Surgeon's Daughter - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Walter Scott (ч. notes)

Примечания

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The Constitution of the Borough.

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Robert Walker, the colleague and rival of Dr. Hugh Blair, in St. Giles's Church Edinburgh

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List of criminal indictments, so termed in Scotland.

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Strollers.

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Or Kite.

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Tattling.

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Marion.

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Galatian is a name of a person famous in Christmas gambols.

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The Botanic Garden is so termed by the vulgar of Edinburgh.

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"Pretty Toy"

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In order to maintain uninjured the tone of passion throughout this dialogue, it has been judged expedient to discard, in the Language of the Begum, the patois of Madame Munreville.

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It is scarce necessary to say, that such things could only be acted in the earlier period of our Indian settlements, when the check of the Directors was imperfect, and that of the crown did not exist. My friend Mr. Fairscribe is of opinion, that there is an anachronism in the introduction of Paupiah, the Bramin Dubash of the English governor.—C. C.

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In every village the Dowrah, or Guide, is an official person, upon the public establishment, and receives a portion of the harvest or other revenue, along with the Smith, the Sweeper, and the Barber. As he gets nothing from the travellers whom it is his office to conduct, he never scruples to shorten his own journey and prolong theirs by taking them to the nearest village, without reference to the most direct line of route, and sometimes deserts them entirely. If the regular Dowrah is sick or absent, no wealth can procure a substitute.