Tales of a Grandfather;: Being Stories Taken from Scottish History. Humbly Inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esq. in Three Vols. .... Second series..Cadell and Company Edinburgh; Simpkin and Marshall, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1829 - Aristocracy (Social class) - 340 pages |
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Page 167 - Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one...
Page 285 - Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bairn...
Page 170 - It was also true, that the Earl of Lauderdale, who, both from his high talents, and from the long imprisonment which he had sustained ever since the battle of Worcester, had a peculiar title to be consulted on Scottish affairs, strongly advised the King to suffer his northern subjects to retain possession of their darling form of worship...
Page 297 - This gentleman had been offered his life, on condition of his becoming a witness against Lord Russell ; a proposal which he rejected with disdain, saying those who uttered it knew neither him nor his country. It does not appear that there was the slightest evidence of the Scottish gentlemen having any concern in the scheme for assassinating the King; but there is no doubt that they had meditated an insurrection, as the only mode of escaping the continued persecution of the government. When Baillie...
Page 214 - God has been and is obnoxious, he said, that it had been persecuted by an Ahab on the throne, a Haman in the state, and a Judas in the church...
Page 285 - ... sight of blood, she had on this occasion strength enough to support the dreadful scene without fainting or confusion, only her eyes dazzled when the carabines were fired. While her husband's dead body lay stretched before him, Claverhouse asked her what she thought of her husband now. " I ever thought much of him," she replied,
Page 43 - Warriston, a gloomy fanatic, hinted as if it were but an idle employment at so solemn a time. " I will arrange my head as I please to-day, while it is still my own," answered Montrose ; " to-morrow it will be yours, and you may deal with it as you list.
Page 115 - I chanced to remain for a day and night in this woman's alehouse, without having money to discharge my reckoning. Not knowing what to do, and seeing her much occupied with a child who had weak eyes, I had the meanness to pretend that I could write out a spell that would mend her daughter's sight, if she would accept it instead of her bill. The ignorant woman readily agreed ; and I scrawled some figures on a piece of parchment, and added two lines of nonsensical doggrel, in ridicule of her credulity,...
Page 33 - Covenant, which was their rule in all tIlings, to acknowledge the hereditary descent of their ancient Kings, and call to the throne Charles, the eldest son of the deceased monarch, providing he would consent to unite with his subjects in taking the Solemn League and Covenant, for the support of Presbytery, and the putting down of all other forms of religion. The Scottish Parliament met, and resolved accordingly to proclaim Charles II.
Page 38 - Argyle in the winter of 1644 ; and it was studiously aggravated by every species of infamy. The Marquis was, according to the special order of Parliament, met at the gates by the magistrates, attended by the common hangman, who was clad for the time in his own livery. He was appointed, as the most infamous mode of execution, to be hanged on a gibbet thirty feet high, his head to be fixed on the tolbooth, or prison of Edinburgh, his body to be quartered, and his limbs to be placed over the gates of...