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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... told you Of courts , of princes , of the tricks in war : That service is not service , so being done , But being so allow'd : To apprehend thus , Draws us a profit from all things we see : And often , to our comfort , shall we find The ...
... told you Of courts , of princes , of the tricks in war : That service is not service , so being done , But being so allow'd : To apprehend thus , Draws us a profit from all things we see : And often , to our comfort , shall we find The ...
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... told the poor King that he was Solomon ; that his sloth and cowardice , by which he betrayed the cause of God and the honor of the nation , was gospell meaknesse and peaceablenesse ; for which they raised him above the heavens , while ...
... told the poor King that he was Solomon ; that his sloth and cowardice , by which he betrayed the cause of God and the honor of the nation , was gospell meaknesse and peaceablenesse ; for which they raised him above the heavens , while ...
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... told him to be his duty , and to leave the consequences to God ; " and , like that illustrious nobleman , he found it the road to prosperity . He for a long time refused the office , which was pressed upon him ; and at last accepted it ...
... told him to be his duty , and to leave the consequences to God ; " and , like that illustrious nobleman , he found it the road to prosperity . He for a long time refused the office , which was pressed upon him ; and at last accepted it ...
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... told , few of which are probably true , in order to account for it . Among these is one , that the Duke of Cumberland and he had some misunderstanding in Inverness ; another , that his favour declined upon his answering the king in the ...
... told , few of which are probably true , in order to account for it . Among these is one , that the Duke of Cumberland and he had some misunderstanding in Inverness ; another , that his favour declined upon his answering the king in the ...
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... told him he sent for him " to see with what composure a Christian could die . ” John Steel was then a sort of head - servant , having been once a merchant in Edinburgh . He passed the rest of his days at Culloden , in comfort and ease ...
... told him he sent for him " to see with what composure a Christian could die . ” John Steel was then a sort of head - servant , having been once a merchant in Edinburgh . He passed the rest of his days at Culloden , in comfort and ease ...
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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.