 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...  Records of the McCrillis Families in America - Halaman 6oleh Herbert O. McCrillis - 1882 - 42 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 436 halaman
...of war, and among them such monsters of cruelty as James Graham of Claverhouse. " The chief of this Tophet upon earth, a soldier of distinguished courage...and profane, of violent temper and obdurate heart, has left a name, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, which is mentioned... | |
 | William Marshall - 1875 - 328 halaman
...of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - 738 halaman
...of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls.* The chief of this Tophet, 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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 halaman
...James in carrying on this nefarious work was one James Graham, of Claverhouse, who, says Macauley, was a " soldier of distinguished courage and professional...but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart, who has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1880 - 1174 halaman
...Wallace. He fell at the battle of Falkirk, July 22, 1298 — JOHN, of Claverhonse, Viscount Dundee, "a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart," whose name, "wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 454 halaman
...James in carrying on this nefarious work was one James Graham, of Claverhouse, who, says Macauley, was a " soldier of distinguished courage and professional...but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart, who has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1886 - 524 halaman
...Macaulay. After the passage referred to above, in which he first brings John Graham on the stage, as " a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart," who "has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of... | |
 | James Taylor - 1887 - 224 halaman
...that district. This man, so notorious in the annals of the "persecution," was, as Lord Macaulay says, "a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart, and has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1891 - 232 halaman
...related by Scott. He was described by his enemies as a fiend in human shape ; and Macaulay calls him "a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...and profane, of violent temper and obdurate heart." Aytoun, on the other hand, who defends him against the charges of Macaulay, says that, according to... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1908 - 436 halaman
...the highest society in those days." — Life and Times of fohn Graham of Claverhouse, vol. ip II. 1 "A soldier of distinguished courage and professional...skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart [who] has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of... | |
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