A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, المجلد 3A. Fullarton, 1849 |
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James Browne. have been the consequences of the pretended union ; that so the nation may be restored to that honour , liberty , and independency , which it formerly enjoyed . " We likewise promise upon our royal word to protect , secure ...
James Browne. have been the consequences of the pretended union ; that so the nation may be restored to that honour , liberty , and independency , which it formerly enjoyed . " We likewise promise upon our royal word to protect , secure ...
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... consequence than the ruin of those concerned in it . " * On the same day , however , on which the president's letter to Lord Tweeddale was written , all doubts of the arrival and landing of the prince were removed at Edinburgh , by an ...
... consequence than the ruin of those concerned in it . " * On the same day , however , on which the president's letter to Lord Tweeddale was written , all doubts of the arrival and landing of the prince were removed at Edinburgh , by an ...
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... consequence of a notice which Cope had sent to him and the other leading adherents of the government , through , or in the neigh- bourhood of whose territories he meant to pass , requiring them to raise their men ; but neither the duke ...
... consequence of a notice which Cope had sent to him and the other leading adherents of the government , through , or in the neigh- bourhood of whose territories he meant to pass , requiring them to raise their men ; but neither the duke ...
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... consequence of information having been received at the castle that he was preparing to receive and entertain the prince at his house . The army passed the night on the moor of Sauchie , a few miles south from the Ford . The prince ...
... consequence of information having been received at the castle that he was preparing to receive and entertain the prince at his house . The army passed the night on the moor of Sauchie , a few miles south from the Ford . The prince ...
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... consequences to the city if taken by storm , they considered the proposal of marching out with the dragoons preferable to keeping within the walls , as with their assistance the dragoons might be able to break the force of the Highland ...
... consequences to the city if taken by storm , they considered the proposal of marching out with the dragoons preferable to keeping within the walls , as with their assistance the dragoons might be able to break the force of the Highland ...
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الصفحة 43 - And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord For servants and handmaids: And they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; And they shall rule over their oppressors.
الصفحة 43 - TOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
الصفحة 332 - There were first some rows of trees laid down in order to level a floor for the habitation ; and as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees in the way of joists or planks were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth, which with the trees were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and THE PRINCE'S ESCAPE, 1746.
الصفحة 286 - 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 spins all your lint ; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her.
الصفحة 398 - If I was surprised to find him there, I was still more astonished when he acquainted me with the motives which had induced him to hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile had formed a scheme which was impracticable ; but although it had been as feasible as they had represented it to him, yet no preparation had been made, nor was anything ready to carry it into execution.
الصفحة 331 - It was situated in the face of a very rough, high, and rocky mountain, called Letternilichk, still a part of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, and some scattered wood interspersed. The habitation called the Cage, in the face of that mountain, was within a small thick bush of wood.
الصفحة 144 - ... 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. Having continued for some time to manoeuvre in this way...
الصفحة 124 - The reason assigned by the Highlanders for their custom of throwing their muskets on the ground, is not without its force. They say, they embarrass them in their operations, even when slung behind them, and on gaining a battle, they can pick them up again along with the arms of their enemies ; but, if they should be beaten, they have no occasion for muskets.
الصفحة 343 - The judgment of the law is, and this high court doth award, that you, William, earl of Kilmarnock ; George, earl of Cromarty ; and Arthur Lord Balmerino, and every of you, return to the prison of the Tower from whence you came : from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution : when you come there, you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead...
الصفحة 270 - ... violation, and then turned out naked, with their children, to starve on the barren heaths. One whole family was enclosed in a barn, and consumed to ashes. Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen within the compass of fifty miles; all was ruin, silence, and desolation.