Culloden Papers: Comprising an Extensive and Interesting Correspondence from the Year 1625 to 1748; Including Numerous Letters from the Unfortunate Lord Lovat and Other Distinguished Persons of the Time; with Occasional State Papers of Much Historical Importance. The Whole Published from the Originals in the Possession of Duncan George Forbes. To which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing Memoirs of the Right Honourable Duncan ForbesH. R. Duff T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815 - Всего страниц: 479 |
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... town of Inverness . He was descended from the The perusal of history too often shews , that those whose folly or crimes produce lamentable events in the sequel , escape from feeling their effects , and leave their descendants to expiate ...
... town of Inverness . He was descended from the The perusal of history too often shews , that those whose folly or crimes produce lamentable events in the sequel , escape from feeling their effects , and leave their descendants to expiate ...
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... town , his assistance must have been of much consequence . He died in 1654 , aged 82 years , as appears by the following epitaph : " Here lye the bodies of Duncan Forbes of Culloden , and his spouse Janet Forbes ; lineally descended of ...
... town , his assistance must have been of much consequence . He died in 1654 , aged 82 years , as appears by the following epitaph : " Here lye the bodies of Duncan Forbes of Culloden , and his spouse Janet Forbes ; lineally descended of ...
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... Town of Inverness II . - Pa B. of Ross to the Council of Inver- ness , dated London , 17th March 1626 III . Sir William Alexander , to the Baillies , Council , and Committee , of the Burgh of Inverness , dated Whitehall , the 28th of ...
... Town of Inverness II . - Pa B. of Ross to the Council of Inver- ness , dated London , 17th March 1626 III . Sir William Alexander , to the Baillies , Council , and Committee , of the Burgh of Inverness , dated Whitehall , the 28th of ...
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... town of Inverness and the neighbouring country for government . The castle of Culloden " had been besieged , and was defended by the lady " of the proprietor during his absence in parliament , with a degree of intrepidity seldom ...
... town of Inverness and the neighbouring country for government . The castle of Culloden " had been besieged , and was defended by the lady " of the proprietor during his absence in parliament , with a degree of intrepidity seldom ...
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... towns , almost entirely ceased to consider these objects as worthy of an attention which , it was pretended , a better world ought to occupy ; while dissimulation , cautious timidity , and short - sighted selfishness , seemed to banish ...
... towns , almost entirely ceased to consider these objects as worthy of an attention which , it was pretended , a better world ought to occupy ; while dissimulation , cautious timidity , and short - sighted selfishness , seemed to banish ...
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acquaint Advocat affair answer assure Baillie Baron believe Brother Bunchrew commanded concern Country Court of Session Culloden Dear Laird Dear Lord desire Duke of Argyll Duke of Newcastle Duncan Forbes duty Earl Edin Edinburgh endeavour Estate expence faithfull favour Fraserdale friends Gentlemen give Glasgow Glengary Government Grace Grant hear Highlands honour hope House humble Serv humble Servant intreat Inverness Jacobite John Forbes judge Justice King King's Laird of Culodin late Letter London Lop's Lord Advocate Lord Ilay Lord Lovat Lord President Lordship Magistrates Majestie's Majesty Majesty's never Newcastle night obliged occasion Office opinion Parliament persons present Pretender proper Provost publick Rebellion Rebels Scotland sent shew sincere Sir John Cope soon tell ther thing told Town Troops trouble tryall tyme wish writ write
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Стр. 144 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Стр. 311 - Tis come, the glorious morn! the second birth Of heaven and earth ! awakening Nature hears The new-creating word, and starts to life, In every heightened form, from pain and death For ever free.
Стр. 311 - For ever free. The great eternal scheme, Involving all, and in a perfect whole Uniting, as the prospect wider spreads, To reason's eye refin'd clears up apace. Ye vainly wise ! ye blind presumptuous ! now, Confounded in the dust, adore that Power And Wisdom oft arraign'd...
Стр. 311 - In starving solitude; while Luxury, In palaces, lay straining her low thought, To form unreal wants: why heaven-born Truth, And Moderation fair, wore the red marks Of Superstition's scourge : why licens'd Pain, That cruel spoiler, that embosom'd foe, Imbitter'd all our bliss. Ye good distrest ! Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand...
Стр. xix - Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Стр. 311 - And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Стр. xv - Still as his mother favour'd you, Threw a new flaming dart. Each gloried in their wanton part : To make a lover he Employed the utmost of his art, To make a beauty she.
Стр. xix - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.
Стр. ii - The face of the court was much changed in the change of the king, for King Charles was temperate, chaste, and serious; so that the fools and bawds, mimics and catamites, of the former court, grew out of fashion...
Стр. xix - The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of 'abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.