Tales of a Grandfather: Being Stories Taken from Scottish History. Humbly Inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, EsqSamuel H. Parker, 1834 |
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... enterprise , or pro- tect them in case of its failure , than he should think con- sistent with his magnanimity , and convenient for his affairs . This was no doubt a bargain by which nothing could be lost by France , but it had been ...
... enterprise , or pro- tect them in case of its failure , than he should think con- sistent with his magnanimity , and convenient for his affairs . This was no doubt a bargain by which nothing could be lost by France , but it had been ...
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... enterprise . 66 The extent of Colonel Hooke's success was obtaining a memorial , signed by ten lords and Chiefs , acting in the name , as they state , of the bulk of the nation , but par- ticularly of thirty persons of distinction ...
... enterprise . 66 The extent of Colonel Hooke's success was obtaining a memorial , signed by ten lords and Chiefs , acting in the name , as they state , of the bulk of the nation , but par- ticularly of thirty persons of distinction ...
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... enterprise , and made it public . This was the illness of the Chevalier de St. George , who was seized with the measles . It could then no longer remain a secret that he was lying sick in Dun- kirk , with the purpose of heading an ...
... enterprise , and made it public . This was the illness of the Chevalier de St. George , who was seized with the measles . It could then no longer remain a secret that he was lying sick in Dun- kirk , with the purpose of heading an ...
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... enterprise . On the other hand , the new law , with the precision required by the English system , was decided and distinct in settling certain forms of procedure , which in Scotland , being left to the arbitrary pleasure of the judges ...
... enterprise . On the other hand , the new law , with the precision required by the English system , was decided and distinct in settling certain forms of procedure , which in Scotland , being left to the arbitrary pleasure of the judges ...
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... enterprise involves all the fortunes of their house , name , rank , and other advantages , which , having received perhaps from a long train of ancestors , they are naturally and laudably desirous to transmit to their posterity . The ...
... enterprise involves all the fortunes of their house , name , rank , and other advantages , which , having received perhaps from a long train of ancestors , they are naturally and laudably desirous to transmit to their posterity . The ...
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Página 144 - ... paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance, you probably will be broke, for you never get time to load a second cartridge ; and if you give way, you may give yourselves for dead, for they,* being without a firelock or any load, no man with his arms, accoutrements, &c.
Página 100 - I'll put it in execution, let my Loss be what it will, that it may be an example to others. You are to tell the Gentlemen that I'll expect them in their best Accoutrements, on Horseback and no Excuse to be accepted of.
Página 51 - Union, they were all the while in agony lest they should prove successful. Acute observer of men and motives as he was, Swift was in this instance mistaken. Less sharp-sighted than this celebrated author, and blinded by their own exasperated pride, the Scots were desirous of wreaking their revenge at the expense of a treaty which contained so many latent advantages, in the same manner as an intoxicated man vents his rage at the expense of valuable furniture or important papers. In the pamphlet which...
Página 100 - Kildrummy, which you are immediately to intimate to all my vassals: if they give ready obedience, it will make some amends, and if not ye may tell them from me, that it will not be in my power to save them (were I willing) from being treated as enemies, by those...
Página 161 - But the ,svents of war are of less consequence than the use which is made of them. It does not appear that any attempt was made on the part of Mar to avail himself of his success on the right. General Whitham had indeed resigned the field of battle to his opponents, and from thence fled almost to Stirling bridge. The victorious Highlanders did not take the trouble to pursue them, but having...
Página 216 - Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor : and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Página 42 - I imagine a person of quality prevailed on to marry a woman much his inferior, and without a groat to her fortune, and her friends arguing she was as good as her husband, because she brought him as numerous a family of relations and servants as she found in his house.
Página 115 - On the 5th, therefore, in the evening, the council of war was again convoked, and the Chevalier told them, with sullen resignation, that he consented to return to Scotland, but at the same time informed them, that in future he should call no more councils, since he was accountable to nobody for his actions excepting to Heaven and to his father, and would therefore no longer either ask or accept their advice.
Página 89 - Lauder to Coldstream, and from thence to Berwick. At the latter place, Lord Mark Ker, of the family of Lothian, a house which has long had hereditary fame for wit as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was the first general in Europe who had brought the first tidings of his own defeat.
Página 100 - Kildrummie know, that if they come not forth with their best arms, I will send a party immediately to burn what they shall miss taking from them.