The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, Volumen7W. Blackwood, 1873 - 100 páginas |
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... chief command ; but he had a committee of the Estates to give him his orders , among whom Warriston was one . These were weary of lying in the fields , and thought that Leslie made not haste enough to destroy those sectaries , for so ...
... chief command ; but he had a committee of the Estates to give him his orders , among whom Warriston was one . These were weary of lying in the fields , and thought that Leslie made not haste enough to destroy those sectaries , for so ...
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... chief commanders and others in their several places , and soldiers also , were acted with as much courage as ever hath been seen in any action since this war . I know they look not to be named , and therefore I forbear particulars ...
... chief commanders and others in their several places , and soldiers also , were acted with as much courage as ever hath been seen in any action since this war . I know they look not to be named , and therefore I forbear particulars ...
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... chiefs too soon , and lost his opportunity . On his return it was resolved that if his friends were to keep him , it should be in a shape available for political purposes by making him King . Arrangements were ac- cordingly made for ...
... chiefs too soon , and lost his opportunity . On his return it was resolved that if his friends were to keep him , it should be in a shape available for political purposes by making him King . Arrangements were ac- cordingly made for ...
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... chief stand at the Sudbury Gate - pro- bably a large Gothic building like its neighbour , Edgar's Gate , still visible . The Scots occupied the castle , where , according to Cromwell himself , they " made a very con- siderable fight ...
... chief stand at the Sudbury Gate - pro- bably a large Gothic building like its neighbour , Edgar's Gate , still visible . The Scots occupied the castle , where , according to Cromwell himself , they " made a very con- siderable fight ...
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... chief of the English forces , or of the English judges in Scotland . The mod erator replied , that we were an ecclesiastical synod , a spiritual court of Jesus Christ , which meddled not with anything civil ; that our authority was from ...
... chief of the English forces , or of the English judges in Scotland . The mod erator replied , that we were an ecclesiastical synod , a spiritual court of Jesus Christ , which meddled not with anything civil ; that our authority was from ...
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affair afterwards Argyle arms army Assembly authority bishops Blair Castle body brethren brought burgh called Cameronians Castle cause chief Church Church of Scotland clan Claverhouse clergy clergymen command commissioners committee Commonwealth of England Confession conventicles Court Covenant Covenanters Cromwell crown declaration desired documents Dundee duty Earl ecclesiastical Edinburgh Edinburgh Castle enemy England English Episcopacy Episcopalian Erastian established Estates Estates of Parliament Faith favour force friends garrison Glencoe Government hand held Highland indulgence influence Jacobite John King James king's kingdom land Lauderdale lawburrows letter Lord Mackay majesty majesty's ment Middleton ministers monarch nation nature oath occasion officers parish Parliament party passed persons political Prelacy Presbyterian Presbyterian polity present Privy Council Protestant question reign religion Restoration Revolution royal Sanquhar Declaration says Scotland Scots sent settlement soldiers spirit suffer testimony tion town troops William Wodrow
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Página 92 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. 'His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk, to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. 'Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pike out his bonny blue een. Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair, We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.
Página 29 - I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Página 87 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Página 94 - T do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee. Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.
Página 95 - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata : they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Página 82 - It opens as follows : — 0 perfect light, which shed away The darkness from the light, And set a ruler o'er the day, Another o'er the night. Thy glory, when the day forth flies, More vively does appear, Nor at mid-day unto our eyes The shining sun is clear.
Página 90 - Gloomy, gloomy was the night, And eerie was the way, As fair Jenny in her green mantle To Miles Cross she did gae. About the middle o the night She heard the bridles ring; This lady was as glad at that As any earthly thing.
Página 136 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
Página 30 - Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.
Página 278 - October 24, 1684 ; for their adherence to the word of God, and Scotland's covenanted work of reformation.