The Life and Times of Montrose: Illustrated from Original Manuscripts, Including Family Papers Now First Published from the Montrose Charter-Chest and Other Private Repositories; with Portraits and Autographs

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Oliver & Boyd, 1840 - 537 trang
 

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Trang 435 - I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
Trang 476 - Let them bestow on every airth a limb, Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker ! in that crimson lake ; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake — Scatter my ashes — strew them in the air ; Lord ! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
Trang 145 - Your Majesty in all time coming. They have no other end but to preserve their religion in purity, and their liberties entire. That they intend the overthrow of monarchical government is a calumny. They are capable of no other, for many and great reasons; and ere they will admit another than Your Majesty, and after you your son and nearest of your posterity, to sit upon your throne, many thousands of them will spend their dearest blood.
Trang 195 - I have promised, and withal to quiet those distractions which have and may fall out amongst you ; and this I mind not superficially but fully and cheerfully to do...
Trang 361 - ... forced to dismiss his Highlanders for a season, who would needs return home to look to their own affairs. When they were gone, Aboyne took a caprice, and had away with him the greatest strength^he VOL.
Trang 249 - I'll never love thee more. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone, My thoughts shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch, To win or lose it all.
Trang 466 - The reason of his being tied to the cart was in hope that the people would have stoned him, and that he might not be able by his hands to save his face.
Trang 29 - That bishops have a competence," he wrote, " is agreeable to the law of God and man ; but to invest them into great estates and principal...
Trang 28 - This made him more irresolute than the conjuncture of his affairs would admit. If he had been of a rougher and more imperious nature, he would have found more respect and duty...
Trang 471 - I took ; I own it, and adhere to it. Bishops, I care not for them ; I never intended to advance their interest...

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