History of the Rebellions in Scotland: Under the Marquis of Montrose, and Others, from 1638 Till 1660Constable, 1828 - 330 pages |
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... hand , now found themselves at liberty to speak their sentiments with boldness , regarding the ille- gality and danger of the late movements of the Covenanting government , especially their unhal- lowed league with the English ...
... hand , now found themselves at liberty to speak their sentiments with boldness , regarding the ille- gality and danger of the late movements of the Covenanting government , especially their unhal- lowed league with the English ...
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... hand , was not destined to fall a sacrifice at last to a pair of craven fugitives . Long before his friend came up , he had killed his opponents with two successive blows of his sword ; though , such was his excessive fatigue , or such ...
... hand , was not destined to fall a sacrifice at last to a pair of craven fugitives . Long before his friend came up , he had killed his opponents with two successive blows of his sword ; though , such was his excessive fatigue , or such ...
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... hands . But when the prodigious strength and spirit of these men is seriously considered , and in contrast with the irresolution of the Campbells , his wonder will in a great measure cease . To convince him of the credibility of the ...
... hands . But when the prodigious strength and spirit of these men is seriously considered , and in contrast with the irresolution of the Campbells , his wonder will in a great measure cease . To convince him of the credibility of the ...
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... hands of the Campbells . The feeling of hostility which he bore to that tribe , had been ra- ther increased than diminished since his arrival in Scotland ; for , to mark their indignation at his conduct under Montrose , a party of them ...
... hands of the Campbells . The feeling of hostility which he bore to that tribe , had been ra- ther increased than diminished since his arrival in Scotland ; for , to mark their indignation at his conduct under Montrose , a party of them ...
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... hands , by any more regular mode of remuneration for their services . It would be well if the historians who sound the charge against him upon this subject , would look a little more attentively at his circumstances , at the general ...
... hands , by any more regular mode of remuneration for their services . It would be well if the historians who sound the charge against him upon this subject , would look a little more attentively at his circumstances , at the general ...
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Aberdeenshire afterwards Alaster appeared Argyle Athole attack Auldearn Baillie Baillie's Balfour's Annales battle battle of Alford battle of Auldearn battle of Inverlochy battle of Kilsyth BATTLE OF PHILIPHAUGH body camp Campbells castle cause cavaliers Charles church circumstances clan Clanranald command Committee of Estates Covenant Covenanters Cromwell dreadful Duke of Hamilton Dunbar Earl Edinburgh endeavoured enemy engaged England English execution expedition favour fight foot force friends gentleman Guthry hand Highlanders honour horse hundred Hurry immediately Inverlochy Inverness joined killed Kilsyth king king's kingdom Kirk Laird land least Leslie Lord Gordon Lowlands MacCol Marquis of Argyle Marquis of Huntly Memoirs ment miles Montrose Montrose's Musselburgh night nobleman obliged parliament party person Presbyterian prisoners procure regiments retire retreat Robert Spottiswood royal royalists Scotland Scots Scottish army sent Sir Robert soldiers Stirling Sutherland sword thousand tion took town troops trose victory whole Wishart
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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.
Page 207 - I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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.
Page 325 - I grow an old man, and feel infirmities of age marvellously stealing upon me. Would my corruptions did as fast decrease...
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.
Page 325 - I have not leisure to write much. But I could chide thee that in many of thy letters thou writest to me, That I should not be unmindful of thee and thy little ones. Truly, if I love you not too well, I think I err not on the other hand much. Thou art dearer to me than any creature ; let that suffice.
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.