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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... soldiers who embraced that per- suasion were treated by their comrades with ridicule and contempt . In a word , any prince less obstinate and bigoted than James , might easily have seen that the army would not become his instru- ment in ...
... soldiers who embraced that per- suasion were treated by their comrades with ridicule and contempt . In a word , any prince less obstinate and bigoted than James , might easily have seen that the army would not become his instru- ment in ...
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... soldiers , unchecked by the King's own pre- sence , showed that the army and the people were animated by the same spirit . Yet James was so little influenced by this universal expression of adherence to the Protestant cause , that he ...
... soldiers , unchecked by the King's own pre- sence , showed that the army and the people were animated by the same spirit . Yet James was so little influenced by this universal expression of adherence to the Protestant cause , that he ...
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... soldiers under arms in the discussion of any political doctrine , since they must be regarded as the servants , not the counsellors , of the state ; nevertheless , James resolved , if possible , to obtain from the army their approbation ...
... soldiers under arms in the discussion of any political doctrine , since they must be regarded as the servants , not the counsellors , of the state ; nevertheless , James resolved , if possible , to obtain from the army their approbation ...
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... soldiers opinions the most unfavoura- ble to his measures , he suddenly received in- telligence from his ambassador in Holland , that the Prince of Orange was about to put to sea with an army of fifteen thousand men , supplied by the ...
... soldiers opinions the most unfavoura- ble to his measures , he suddenly received in- telligence from his ambassador in Holland , that the Prince of Orange was about to put to sea with an army of fifteen thousand men , supplied by the ...
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... soldiers . Amongst these was Lord Churchill , afterwards the celebrated Duke of Marlborough . He was a particular fa- vourite of the unhappy King , who had be- stowed a peerage on him , with high rank in the army ; and his desertion to ...
... soldiers . Amongst these was Lord Churchill , afterwards the celebrated Duke of Marlborough . He was a particular fa- vourite of the unhappy King , who had be- stowed a peerage on him , with high rank in the army ; and his desertion to ...
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Page 316 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 218 - You are to have especial care that the old fox and his cubs do on no account escape your hands; you are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at...
Page 212 - As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 157 - ... amongst cataracts and waterfalls which the eye can scarcely discern, while a series of precipices and wooded mountains rise on the other hand ; the road itself is the only mode of access through the glen, and along the valley which lies at its northern extremity. The path was then much more inaccessible than at the present day, as it ran close to the bed of the river, and was narrower and more rudely formed.
Page 225 - Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those who escaped might amount to a hundred and fifty males, who, with the women and children of the...
Page 225 - Duncanson, agreeably to the plan .expressed in his orders to Glenlyon, had not failed to put himself in motion, with four hundred men, on the evening preceding the slaughter ; and had he reached the eastern passes out of Glencoe by four in the morning as he calculated, he must have intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in the forenoon, they found no MacDonald alive in Glencoe, save...
Page 263 - Nothing1 could be heard throughout Scotland but the language of grief and of resentment. Indemnification, redress, revenge, were demanded by every mouth, and each hand seemed ready to vouch for the justice of the claim. For many years, no such universal feeling had ' occupied the Scottish nation.
Page 163 - Observing the stand made by the two English regiments already mentioned, he galloped towards the clan of MacDonald, and was in the act of bringing them to the charge, with his right arm elevated, as if pointing the way to victory, when he was struck by a bullet beneath the armpit, where he was unprotected by his cuirass. He tried to ride on, but being unable to keep the saddle, fell mortally wounded, and died in the course of the night.
Page 222 - Reassured by this communication, the young men retired to rest, but were speedily awakened by an old domestic, who called on the two brothers to rise and fly for their lives. "Is it time for you...
Page 157 - ... with them. Nevertheless, Dundee resolved to preserve the castle of Blair, so important as a key to the Northern Highlands, and marched to protect it with a body of about two thousand Highlanders, with whom he occupied the upper and northern extremity of the pass between Dunkeld and Blair. In this celebrated defile, called the Pass of Killiecrankie, the road runs for several miles along the banks of a furious river, called the Garry, which...