 | William Max Reid - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1901 - 490 pages
...forces in Scotland: "As for Maclan and his tribe, if they can well be distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. ' ' The extirpation planned by the Earl of Stair was of a different kind from that intended by the... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 728 pages
...verbal alterations, and with this addition : " As for Maclan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders,...the vindication of public justice to extirpate that sect of thieves." Burnet* alleges that "the king signed this, without any inquiry about it; for he... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1908 - 516 pages
...runs thus: "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...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1908 - 142 pages
...thus : " 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...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1912 - 870 pages
...much-needed lesson. Accordingly he persuaded William, who knew nothing of the facts, that it was desirable " for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves," meaning thereby the Macdonalds of Glencoe. The order was carried out by a detachment of soldiers from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1914 - 600 pages
...thus : " 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...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | Esther Singleton - World history - 1916 - 358 pages
...runs thus: "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...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear ^ sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - English poetry - 1921 - 532 pages
...1 first itali<:i:et1 in 1863 1 WILWAM R.— As for M'lan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders, it will be proper for public justice to extirpate that Bet of thieves. WR' Tliis letter is remarkable as being signed and... | |
 | Kenneth Norman Bell, Gladys M. Morgan - History - 1925 - 380 pages
...thus : " 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...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | Cyril Edward Robinson - Great Britain - 1928 - 966 pages
...follows: "As for Maclan of Glencoe and all that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." On receipt of this order, a strong detachment of red-coats, drawn for the most part from the Campbell... | |
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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. 
