The autobiography of Flora M'Donald, ed. [or rather, written] by her grand-daughter [F.F. Wylde]. |
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الصفحة 24 - Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present.
الصفحة 139 - I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be any way frightened with the troops lying here. She has got one Betty Burke, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spin all your lint; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her.
الصفحة 69 - THE WOMEN ARE A' GANE WUD. LADY NAIRNB, 1766-1845. As usually printed. THE women are a' gane wud ! Oh, that he had bidden awa' ! He 's turn'd their heads, the lad, And ruin will bring on us a'.
الصفحة 204 - August, 1746. Dear Sir, — I must desire the favour of you to forward my letters by an express to Inveraray ; and if any are left with you, let them be sent by the bearer. I shall stay here with Commodore Smith till Sunday morning. If you can't come, I beg to know if you have any men now in garrison at your house, and how many ? Make my compliments to your lady, and tell her that I am obliged to desire the favour of her for some days to receive a very pretty young rebel. Her zeal, and the persuasion...
الصفحة 50 - Hanover, whether landed, or attemping to land, in any part of his majesty's dominions. Should any fatal accident happen from hence, let the blame lie entirely at the door of those who first set the infamous example.
الصفحة 112 - He lived nine years in a cave, at a short distance from his house, which was burnt to the ground by the king's troops. This cave was in the front of a woody precipice, the trees and shelving rocks completely concealing the entrance. It was dug out by his own people, who worked by night, and conveyed the stones and rubbish into a lake in the neighbourhood, in order that no vestige of their labour might betray the retreat of their master. In this sanctuary he lived secure, occasionally visiting his...
الصفحة 46 - ... there entered the tent a tall youth, of a most agreeable aspect, in a plain black coat, with a plain shirt, not very clean, and a cambrick stock, fixed with a plain silver buckle, a fair round wig out of the buckle, a plain hatt, with a canvas string, haveing one end fixed to one of his coat buttons ; he had black stockins, and brass buckles in his shoes.
الصفحة 75 - had been so confidently promised them. One prisoner (an Irishman perhaps) was even overheard to mutter to his comrades, " By my soul, if Charlie goes on in this way, " Prince Frederick will never be King George !"* But this victory brought the Pretender no fruit, but barren laurels ; nay, it may be said without a paradox, that it proved hurtful instead of advantageous to his cause. Among the officers, it raised an angry dissension ; each lamenting that the destruction of the enemy had not been completed...
الصفحة 45 - Clanranald returned to us, and in about half an hour after, there entered the tent a tall youth, of a most agreeable aspect, in a plain black coat, with a plain shirt not very clean, and a cambric stock fixed with a plain silver buckle, a fair round wig out of the buckle...