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... Kenneth , called MacAlpine ; and there is a corresponding catalogue of kings of the northern Picts , published by Innes . Vari- ous allusions are made to the battles and suc- cesses of the two lines against each other . In A. D. 837 ...
... Kenneth , called MacAlpine ; and there is a corresponding catalogue of kings of the northern Picts , published by Innes . Vari- ous allusions are made to the battles and suc- cesses of the two lines against each other . In A. D. 837 ...
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... Kenneth MacAlpine , extended their sway over the shores of Angus and Fifeshire , so See the Ex - aletation of Ale , in Ritson's Ancient Songs . This genial secret is not , however , entirely lost . Old moor - fowl shooters , amongst ...
... Kenneth MacAlpine , extended their sway over the shores of Angus and Fifeshire , so See the Ex - aletation of Ale , in Ritson's Ancient Songs . This genial secret is not , however , entirely lost . Old moor - fowl shooters , amongst ...
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... Kenneth MacAlpine to the Pictish throne is noticed , without its being inti- mated upon what species of revolution that event took place . The Gothic champion argues that , such authorities being silent , we ought to believe in any ...
... Kenneth MacAlpine to the Pictish throne is noticed , without its being inti- mated upon what species of revolution that event took place . The Gothic champion argues that , such authorities being silent , we ought to believe in any ...
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... Kenneth Mac Alpine : to wit , Galwegia , or the modern Galloway , the his- tory of which district , if fit materials existed to compose it , would be of singular interest to the antiquary . Such materials have not been disco- vered ...
... Kenneth Mac Alpine : to wit , Galwegia , or the modern Galloway , the his- tory of which district , if fit materials existed to compose it , would be of singular interest to the antiquary . Such materials have not been disco- vered ...
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... Kenneth MacAlpine , for example , have been unanimously rejected by lawyers and historians . The history of the old book termed the Regiam Majestatem , again , is pretty well understood to have been a ruse - de - guerre on the part of ...
... Kenneth MacAlpine , for example , have been unanimously rejected by lawyers and historians . The history of the old book termed the Regiam Majestatem , again , is pretty well understood to have been a ruse - de - guerre on the part of ...
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Página 168 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 93 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Página 95 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Página 106 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Página 105 - I followed them up into Whitehall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another's by one another's heads, and laughing.
Página 272 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of...
Página 29 - That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can.
Página 135 - ... when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of...
Página 105 - King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of...
Página 118 - At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty ; and indeed was fine all over, and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering ; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses...