| William Crookshank - 1812 - 420 páginas
...he offered to speak ; but, the trumpets sounding, he stopped till they had ended, and then said, ' I had the honour to set the crown upon the King's...' and now he hastens me to a better crown than his pwn.' And, directing himself to the commissioner and parliament, he said, ' You have the indemnity... | |
| 1818 - 594 páginas
...upon the king's head (as he was indeed the only man who made him king of Scotland), and now (he said) he hastens me to a better crown than his own. When he was in prison, and when his friends saw his case was desperate, there was a way contrived by force... | |
| John Willison - 1821 - 316 páginas
...suffer the utmost. When the sentence of death was past by the parliament, Saturday May 25th, he said, ' I had the honour to set the crown upon the king's...and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own ;' then he was sent to the tplbooth. His excellent lady embracing him when he entered ; wept bitterly,... | |
| 1824 - 768 páginas
...trumpets sounding, he stopt till they ended, and then said, " I had the honour to set the crown on the King's head, and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own." And directing himself to the commissioner and parliament, he said, " You have the indemnity of an earthly... | |
| John Howie - 1828 - 650 páginas
...tiutrumpet sounding, he stopt till they ended, and then said, " I had the honour to set the crown on the King's head, and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own." And directing himself to the commissioner and parliament, he said, " You have the indemnity of an earthly... | |
| Robert Wodrow, Robert Burns - 1835 - 516 páginas
...pronounced, he offered to speak : but the trumpets sounding, he stopped till they ended, and then said, " I had the honour to set the crown upon the king's head, (and indeed the marquis brought him to the crown) and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own."... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 432 páginas
...speak, but the trumpets sounding, he stopped till they ended ; then he said, " This reminds me that I had the honour to set the crown upon the King's head" (meaning at the coronation at Scone), " and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own ! " Then... | |
| 1838 - 500 páginas
...this he offered to speak, but the trumpet sounding, he stopped till that was over, and then said, " I had the honour to set the crown upon the king's head, and now he hastens me to a better crown than that of his own:" And directing himself to the commissioner and the parliament, he said, " You have... | |
| John Howie - 1839 - 660 páginas
...the trumpet sounding, he stopt till they ended, and then said, " I had the honour to set the crown on the King's head, and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own." And directing himself to the commissioner and parliament, he said, " You have the indemnity of an earthly... | |
| 1840 - 566 páginas
...calmness of the marquis in the hour of death was truly exemplary. He remarked, ' I had the honor to place the crown upon the king's head, and now he hastens me to a better crown than his own.' And his admonition to the clergy may be useful to those of any generation : ' We must either sin or... | |
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