The History of Scotland: Related in Familiar Conversations, by a Father to His Children: Interspersed with Moral and Instructive Remarks, and Observations on the Most Leading and Interesting Subjects. Designed for the Perusal of Youth, Tập 1P. Norbury, 1806 |
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66 Papa Alexander army assistance attacked barbarous barons battle Berwick besieged brother camp castle cause Charles command conqueror Constantine CONVERSATION CONVERSATION crown Cummin Danes daughter death defeated defend disgrace Donald Douglas dreadful Duncan Earl of Athole Earl of Buchan Earl of Fife Earl of March Edgar Edward Bruce endeavoured enemy English ensued estates father Fergus force France Henry historians History of Scotland honour interrupted John invaded Scotland John Baliol Kenneth killed King David King Edward King of England King of Scotland King Robert king's kingdom of Scotland laid waste land length Lord Macbeth Malcolm mean Monteith murdered Murray nobles obliged party peace Picts plundered prince prisoner queen Randolph ravaged regent reign replied resolved retired revenge Robert Bruce Roxburgh Scone Scotland continued Scots Scottish sent siege slain soon steward Stirling succeeded success surrender thousand throne took place town treaty troops truce victory Wallace Wilmot young
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Trang 6 - Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are Men ? And Men that they are brethren ? Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of Nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Trang 7 - Death exults, and claps his raven wings, Yet reigns he not ev'n there so absolute, So merciless, as in yon frantic scenes Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth, Where in th' intoxicating draught conceal'd, Or couch'd beneath the glance of lawless love, He snares the simple youth, who, nought suspecting, Means to be blest — but finds himself undone. Down...
Trang 7 - ... little bark along the shore Where Virtue takes her stand ; but if too far He launches forth beyond Discretion's mark, Sudden the tempest scowls, the surges roar, Blot his fair day, and plunge him in the deep. O sad but sure mischance ! O happier far To lie like gallant Howe 'midst Indian wilds A breathless corse, cut off by savage hands In earliest prime, a generous sacrifice To freedom's holy cause, than so to fall, Torn immature from life's meridian joys, A prey to Vice, Intemperance, and Disease....
Trang 6 - Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on Inhumanly ingenious to find out New pains for life, new terrors for the grave. Artificers of Death ! Still monarchs dream Of universal empire growing up From universal ruin. Blast the design, Great God of Hosts, nor let thy creatures fall Unpitied victims at Ambition's shrine...
Trang 35 - This ended in a great victory on the part of the confederates, who became masters of all the country south of the Forth and Clyde ; it being agreed that the Forth should from that time forward be called the " Scots sea;" and it was made a capital offence for any Scotchman to set his foot on English ground. They were to erect no forts near the English...
Trang 34 - And wizards' wits be blind, The Scots in place must reign, Where they this stone shall find.
Trang iii - THE HISTORY of ENGLAND, related in Familiar Conversations, by a Father to his Children. Interspersed with moral and instructive Remarks and Observations on the most leading and interesting Subjects.
Trang 10 - About AD 320 they returned again into Britain ; or at least a large colony of them, under the conduct of Fergus, and settled on the western coasts of Caledonia, from whence they had formerly migrated. As early as the year 340...
Trang 94 - ... sufficiently numerous to master the garrison, should they make any resistance. The queen immediately informed them of the tyranny which had been exercised over her, and made many complaints of the ill usage she had received. The English were now masters of the castle, and Henry sent a safe-conduct for the royal pair to meet him at Alnwick. Robert de Ross was summoned by Henry to answer for his conduct ; but, on his throwing himself at the king's feet, he was punished only by the forfeiture of...
Trang 42 - ... Edmund, his brother, and Turketil, his favourite. After an obstinate engagement, the confederates were defeated with great slaughter; the consequence of which was, that the Scots were deprived of all their possessions to the southward of the Forth, and Constantine, quite dispirited with his misfortune, resigned the crown to Malcolm, and retired to the monastery of the Culdees at St. Andrew's, where he died in 943. The reigns of Malcolm, Indulfus, Duffus^ and Cullen, present nothing worthy of...