History of the Rebellions in Scotland: Under the Marquis of Montrose, and Others, from 1638 Till 1660Constable, 1828 - 330 pages |
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... lord marquis mean to let slip the opportunity he has gained of attacking these men to advantage ? " and proposed to his companions that , without regard to Mon- trose , who seemed either to be disposed to betray them , or to have lost ...
... lord marquis mean to let slip the opportunity he has gained of attacking these men to advantage ? " and proposed to his companions that , without regard to Mon- trose , who seemed either to be disposed to betray them , or to have lost ...
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... lord ; and , by God , I will rather act with him than with thee ! " before he also broke off from his position , and with his men proceeded to charge the Campbells . Being thus deserted by the greater part of his troops , and seeing ...
... lord ; and , by God , I will rather act with him than with thee ! " before he also broke off from his position , and with his men proceeded to charge the Campbells . Being thus deserted by the greater part of his troops , and seeing ...
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... Lord Balmerino gave out in the General Assembly next day , that there had not been above thirty men killed in the late battle.15 On hearing of the first two victories of Montrose , they had thought proper to order a day of solemn fast ...
... Lord Balmerino gave out in the General Assembly next day , that there had not been above thirty men killed in the late battle.15 On hearing of the first two victories of Montrose , they had thought proper to order a day of solemn fast ...
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... Lord Gordon , the eldest son of the Marquis of Huntly , who had last year given him so much vexation by remaining with Argyle , but who had now been induced , by the persuasion of Archibald Gordon , by his own disgust at the Covenanters ...
... Lord Gordon , the eldest son of the Marquis of Huntly , who had last year given him so much vexation by remaining with Argyle , but who had now been induced , by the persuasion of Archibald Gordon , by his own disgust at the Covenanters ...
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... Lord Graham , a youth of sixteen , who had already displayed a promise of greatness almost equal to his own , and who had thus preferred accompanying his father through the perils of his desultory campaigns , to every other and securer ...
... Lord Graham , a youth of sixteen , who had already displayed a promise of greatness almost equal to his own , and who had thus preferred accompanying his father through the perils of his desultory campaigns , to every other and securer ...
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Page 129 - And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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Page 129 - And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death. 13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to-day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel.
Page 241 - Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins that I may swim To Thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake ; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake, Scatter my ashes, strew them in the air.
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Page 271 - That because of their numbers, because of their advantages, because of their confidence, because of our weakness, because of our strait, we were in the Mount, and in the Mount the Lord would be seen ; and that He would find out a way of deliverance and salvation for us : — and indeed we had our consolations and our hopes.
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Page 162 - ... throwing himself into the hands of the Scots before Newark. He then removed with the Scotch army to Newcastle, where a commission of lords and commons was sent down to lay before him propositions for peace; as to which, however, they had no authority to treat : on learning which Charles said, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much.
Page 208 - I'd weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands, than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
Page 240 - he was prouder to have his head fixed upon the top of the prison, in the view of the present and succeeding ages, than if they had decreed a golden statue to be erected to him in the market-place, or that his picture should be hung in the king's bed-chamber.