Appendix to the Second Edition of the Lays of the Scottish CavaliersWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1849 - 27 halaman |
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Halaman 326 - Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred.
Halaman 339 - It being a very desart place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her ; the first that came was a very fit hand, that old singular Christian woman, in the Cummerhead, named Elizabeth Menzies, three miles distant...
Halaman 338 - this is all I desire, I have no more to do but die." He kissed his wife and bairns, and wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his blessing. Claverhouse ordered six soldiers to shoot him ; the most part of the bullets came upon his head, which scattered his brains upon the ground. Claverhouse said to his wife, " What thinkest thou of thy husband now, woman?" She said, " I thought ever much of him, and now as much as ever." He said, " It were but justice to lay thee...
Halaman 334 - These dates are of the utmost importance in considering a matter of this kind. The Episcopalian party, which adhered to the cause of King James, was driven from power at the Revolution, and the Episcopal church proscribed. "No mercy was shown to opponents in the literary war which followed ; every species of invective and vituperation was lavished upon the supporters of the fallen dynasty. Yet, for thirty-three years after the Revolution, the details of this atrocious murder were never revealed to...
Halaman 338 - The next morning, between five and six hours, the said John Brown having performed the worship of God in his family, was going, with a spade in his hand, to make ready some peat-ground : the mist being very dark, he knew not until...
Halaman 328 - ... employed himself in that duty. This I affirm upon the testimony of severals that lived in his neighbourhood in Edinburgh, where his office of Privy Councillor often obliged him to be ; and particularly from a Presbyterian lady who lived long in the storey or house immediately below his Lordship's, and who was otherwise so rigid in her opinions that she could not believe a good thing of any person of his persuasion, till his conduct rectified her mistake...
Halaman 326 - I shall now proceed to examine the charges which Mr. Macaulay has brought against Lord Dundee, and the authorities upon which those charges have been founded. "With reference to the proceedings in the west of Scotland, during the year 1685, Mr.
Halaman 326 - Covenanters were most numerous were given up to the license of the army. With the army was mingled a militia, composed of the most violent and profligate of those who called themselves Episcopalians. Pre-eminent among the bands which oppressed and wasted these unhappy districts were the dragoons commanded by James Graham of Claverhouse.
Halaman 346 - The libeller does not think I rejoiced at the fall of my Lord Dundee ! I assure him of the contrary ; for no gentleman, soldier, scholar, or civilised citizen, will find fault with me for this. I had an extraordinary value for him ; and such of his enemies as retain any generosity will acknowledge he deserved it...
Halaman 333 - John Brown, a poor carrier of Lanarkshire, was, for his singular piety, commonly called the Christian carrier. Many years later, when Scotland enjoyed rest, prosperity, and religious freedom, old men who remembered the evil days described him as one versed in divine things, blameless in life, and so peaceable that the tyrants could find no offence in him except that he absented himself from the public worship of the Episcopalians.