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... Chalmers's " Life of Mary , " in 1818 , the history of the Queen of Scots has continued one of those standard subjects which has given birth to a new work , at least every five years . A few of the more important may be mentioned . In ...
... Chalmers's " Life of Mary , " in 1818 , the history of the Queen of Scots has continued one of those standard subjects which has given birth to a new work , at least every five years . A few of the more important may be mentioned . In ...
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... Chalmers . There was never a more careful compiler , —a more pains - taking investigator of public and pri- vate records , deeds , and registers , —a more zealous stickler for the accuracy of dates , the facts , not of facts upon which ...
... Chalmers . There was never a more careful compiler , —a more pains - taking investigator of public and pri- vate records , deeds , and registers , —a more zealous stickler for the accuracy of dates , the facts , not of facts upon which ...
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... Chalmers have laid it down as a prin- ciple , that in order to exculpate Mary , it was necessary to accuse her brother , the Earl of Murray , of all sorts of crimes . By representing Bothwell , as an inferior tool in his hands , they ...
... Chalmers have laid it down as a prin- ciple , that in order to exculpate Mary , it was necessary to accuse her brother , the Earl of Murray , of all sorts of crimes . By representing Bothwell , as an inferior tool in his hands , they ...
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... Chalmers have done this , their learn- ing is comparatively useless , and their labour has been nearly lost . If the author of the following " Life of Mary Queen of Scots , " has been able in any measure , to execute his own wishes , he ...
... Chalmers have done this , their learn- ing is comparatively useless , and their labour has been nearly lost . If the author of the following " Life of Mary Queen of Scots , " has been able in any measure , to execute his own wishes , he ...
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... Chalmers . It will be observed , that our account differs , in many essential particulars , from that of Robertson , who says " Mary's hair was black , though , ac- cording to the fashion of that age , she frequently wore borrowed locks ...
... Chalmers . It will be observed , that our account differs , in many essential particulars , from that of Robertson , who says " Mary's hair was black , though , ac- cording to the fashion of that age , she frequently wore borrowed locks ...
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accused afterwards allowed ambassador Anderson answer anxious appear Argyle authority Bishop Bishop of Ross Bothwell's Brantome Buchanan captivity Carberry Hill Castle Catholic cause Cecil Chalmers Commissioners conference consent Court crown Darnley's death declared Douglas Duke Dunbar Earl of Bothwell Earl of Huntly Earl of Lennox Earl of Mar Earl of Morton Earl of Murray Edinburgh Elizabeth enemies England English favour France French friends Goodall guilt Hamilton hand Holyrood honour husband imprisonment Keith King Kirk-of-Field knew Knox Lady Lennox letters Loch-Leven Lord Herries Maitland Majesty marriage Mary Mary's Melville ment Murray's never nobility nobles occasion Palace Parliament party person possession present Prince prisoner Privy Council Queen of Scots realm rebels Reformers refused Regent Rizzio Robertson says Scotland Scottish sent servants Sir James soon Sovereign St Andrews Stirling subjects taken thing Throckmorton tion took trial truth whole wished
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Página 153 - She repented nothing but, when the Lords and others, at Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
Página 168 - Why should the pleasing face of a gentlewoman affray me ? I have looked in the faces of many angry men, and yet have not been afraid above measure.
Página 137 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 111 - ... memory of man, that day of the year was never seen a more dolorous face of the heaven, than was at her arrival, which two days after did so continue: for, besides the...
Página 236 - God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without Law or Warrant...
Página 236 - I am so unhappy to have liven to see this unhappy day, in the which I am required, by direction from my most gracious Sovereign, to do an act which God and the law forbiddeth.
Página 291 - Bothwell for her husband, but avoweth constantly that she will live and die with him, and saith that if it were put to her choice to relinquish her crown and kingdom or the Lord Bothwell, she would leave her kingdom and dignity to go as a simple damsel with him, and that she will never consent that he shall fare worse or have more harm than herself.
Página 64 - Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
Página 190 - I know the truth of that, Madam," said I ; " you need not tell it me. Your Majesty thinks, if you were married, you would be but queen of England ; and now you are both king and queen. I know your spirit cannot endure a commander.
Página 249 - ... agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen. The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befel her; we must likewise add that she was often imprudent.