The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Tales of a grandfatherR.Cadell, 1836 |
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الصفحة 52
... honour and respect to the rights of others which recent times had introduced ; and they did good or committed evil as opportunity and temptation were presented to them . In general , a spirit of honour and generosity was found to unite ...
... honour and respect to the rights of others which recent times had introduced ; and they did good or committed evil as opportunity and temptation were presented to them . In general , a spirit of honour and generosity was found to unite ...
الصفحة 53
... honour , courage , and good sense ; but , being born and educated foreigners , they were strangers to the peculiar character , no less than to the very complicated form of government , of the country over which they were called by ...
... honour , courage , and good sense ; but , being born and educated foreigners , they were strangers to the peculiar character , no less than to the very complicated form of government , of the country over which they were called by ...
الصفحة 67
... honour- able birth and competent fortune , being the son of Sir David Murray , by his second wife , a daughter of Sir John Scott of Ancrum . His early travels to Rome gave him an opportunity of offering his services to the old Chevalier ...
... honour- able birth and competent fortune , being the son of Sir David Murray , by his second wife , a daughter of Sir John Scott of Ancrum . His early travels to Rome gave him an opportunity of offering his services to the old Chevalier ...
الصفحة 75
... honour and loyalty , which induced him to front the prospect of ruin with a dis- interested devotion , not unworthy the best days of chivalry . His decision was the signal for the com- mencement of the Rebellion ; for it was generally ...
... honour and loyalty , which induced him to front the prospect of ruin with a dis- interested devotion , not unworthy the best days of chivalry . His decision was the signal for the com- mencement of the Rebellion ; for it was generally ...
الصفحة 81
... honour of seeing H. R. H. at least for that night . 3 hours with the P. , Clanranald returned to us ; half ane hour after , there entered the tent a tall youth , of a most agreeable aspect , in a plain black coat , with a plain shirt ...
... honour of seeing H. R. H. at least for that night . 3 hours with the P. , Clanranald returned to us ; half ane hour after , there entered the tent a tall youth , of a most agreeable aspect , in a plain black coat , with a plain shirt ...
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advance Adventurer appearance arms arrived Athole attack Balmerino battle battle of Culloden body called camp Captain Carlisle castle cause cavalry Charles Edward Charles's Chevalier Chevalier's chief Clanranald clans Cluny Colonel command Cope's council Cromarty Culloden despatched dragoons Duke of Cumberland Duke of Perth Earl Edinburgh enemy engaged England English enterprise escape execution Falkirk favour fire force Fort Augustus France French friends garrison gentlemen Government hand Hawley head High Highland army honour horse House of Stewart insurgents Inverness Jacobites joined Keppoch King lady land Lochiel London Lord Elcho Lord George Murray Lord John Lord Lovat Lowland MacDonald MacLeod manner ment military occasion officers opinion party persons Porteous Preston Prince Charles Prince's prisoners Provost purpose rank rear rebellion rebels received regiment retreat Scotland Scots Scottish sent Sir John Cope soldiers Stewart Stirling sword tion took town troops volunteers XXVI
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الصفحة 201 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
الصفحة 47 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
الصفحة 373 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
الصفحة 399 - M'Namara returned to London, and reported the Prince's answer to the gentlemen who had employed him, they were astonished and confounded. However, they soon resolved on the measures which they were to pursue for the future, and determined no longer to serve a man who could not be persuaded to serve himself, and chose rather to endanger the lives of his best and most faithful friends, than part with an harlot, whom, as he often declared, he neither loved nor esteemed.
الصفحة 378 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
الصفحة 147 - ... led the horse, would have persuaded him to retreat, but he said it was only a wound in the flesh, and fought on, though he presently after received a shot in his right thigh.
الصفحة 156 - Gard'ner brave did still behave Like to a hero bright, man ; His courage true, like him were few That still despised flight, man ; For king and laws, and country's cause, In honour's bed he lay, man ; His life, but not his courage, fled, While he had breath to draw, man.
الصفحة 326 - The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers.
الصفحة 205 - ... alive or dead. Dickson presented his blunderbuss, which was charged with slugs, threatening to blow out the brains of those who first dared to lay hands on himself or the two who accompanied him ; and by turning round continually, facing in all directions, and behaving like a lion, he soon enlarged the circle which a crowd of people had formed round them.
الصفحة 207 - Spitalfields and other communities, engaged in associations ; and even the managers of the theatres offered to raise a body of their dependents for the service of the government.