Tales of a grandfather. Second series

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Sanborn, Carter and Bazin, 1853
 

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Página 112 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Página 4 - 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.
Página 210 - 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.
Página 217 - I think I see the present peers of Scotland, whose noble ancestors conquered provinces, overran countries, reduced and subjected towns and fortified places, exacted tribute through the...
Página 65 - ... 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 received sentence of death, he only replied, " My Lords, the sentence is sharp, and • • the time is short ; but I thank God, who has made me as fit to die as you are to live.
Página 136 - Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it : lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
Página 169 - Donald alive in Glencoe, save an old man of eighty, whom they slew ; and after burning such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison of Fort William. 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 tribe, had...
Página 210 - ... 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...
Página 159 - Maclan of Glencoe (this was the patronymic title of the chief of this clan) was a man of a stately and venerable person and aspect. He possessed both courage and sagacity, and was accustomed to be listened to by the neighbouring chieftains, and to take a lead in their deliberations.
Página 26 - 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...

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