The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Tales of a grandfatherRobert Cadell, 1848 |
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... Success - Causes which contributed to Charles's tem- porary Success False Lustre which Romance throws around the System of Clanship - Abuses to which that System led - Proscription of the Highland Garb - Aboli- tion of Hereditary ...
... Success - Causes which contributed to Charles's tem- porary Success False Lustre which Romance throws around the System of Clanship - Abuses to which that System led - Proscription of the Highland Garb - Aboli- tion of Hereditary ...
6. oldal
... success , was the establishment of military roads through the rugged and desolate regions of the north , ensuring the free passage of regular troops in a country , of which it might have been said , while in its natural state , that ...
... success , was the establishment of military roads through the rugged and desolate regions of the north , ensuring the free passage of regular troops in a country , of which it might have been said , while in its natural state , that ...
27. oldal
... success . Only a single person was proved to have been present at the mob , and the circumstances in which he stood placed him out of the reach of punish- ment . He was footman to a lady of rank , and a creature of weak intellects ...
... success . Only a single person was proved to have been present at the mob , and the circumstances in which he stood placed him out of the reach of punish- ment . He was footman to a lady of rank , and a creature of weak intellects ...
37. oldal
... success . The elder sons of the Scottish landholders were generally , like those of France , devoted to the law or to the sword , so that in one way or other they might add some means of increase to the family estates . Commerce was ad ...
... success . The elder sons of the Scottish landholders were generally , like those of France , devoted to the law or to the sword , so that in one way or other they might add some means of increase to the family estates . Commerce was ad ...
38. oldal
... success with the advantage of superior information over those of the same class elsewhere . Thomson , Mallet , and others engaged in the pursuits of literature , were content to receive their reward from the sister country ; and if we ...
... success with the advantage of superior information over those of the same class elsewhere . Thomson , Mallet , and others engaged in the pursuits of literature , were content to receive their reward from the sister country ; and if we ...
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advance appearance arms arrived Athole attack Balmerino battle battle of Culloden battle of Preston body called camp Carlisle castle cause cavalry Charles Edward Charles's Chevalier Chevalier's chiefs Clanranald clans Cluny Colonel command Cope's council Cromarty Culloden despatched dragoons Duke of Cumberland Duke of Perth Earl Earl of Cromarty Edinburgh enemy engaged England English enterprise escape execution Falkirk favour fire followers force France French garrison gentlemen Glasgow Government hand Hawley head High Highland army honour horse House of Stewart insurgents Inverness Jacobite joined Kilmarnock King lady land Lochiel London Lord Elcho Lord George Murray Lord John Drummond Lowland MacDonald MacLeod manner ment military occasion officers opinion party persons Porteous Preston Prince Charles Prince's prisoners Provost rank rear rebellion rebels received regiment retreat royal Scotland Scots Scottish sent Sir John Cope soldiers Stewart Stirling sword tion took town troops volunteers
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57. oldal - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
325. oldal - Devouring flames, and murdering steel ! The pious mother, doom'd to death, Forsaken, wanders o'er the heath, The bleak wind whistles round her head, Her helpless orphans cry for bread ; Bereft of shelter, food, and friend, She views the shades of night descend, And, stretch'd beneath the' inclement skies, Weeps o'er her tender babes and dies.
353. oldal - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
217. oldal - I heard three people, sensible, middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton, a place in the high road, to see the Pretender and the Highlanders as they passed.
266. oldal - ... if you will except one or two, became passionately fond of the young Adventurer, and used all their arts and industry for him in the most intemperate manner.
163. oldal - ... wound on his right arm, that his sword dropped out of his hand; and at the same time several others coming about him while he was thus dreadfully entangled with that cruel weapon, he was dragged off from his horse. The moment he fell, another Highlander...
253. oldal - ... paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance, you probably will be broke, for you never get time to load a second cartridge ; and if you give way, you may give your foot for dead, for they, being without a firelock, or any load, no man with his arms, accoutrements, &c., can escape them, and they give no quarter ; but if you will but observe the above directions, they are the most despicable enemy that are.
145. oldal - ... of a scythe fastened to it, somewhat like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town-guard soldiers carry; but all of them, he added, would be soon provided with firelocks, as the arms belonging to the Trained Bands of Edinburgh had fallen into their hands.
320. oldal - The moor was covered with blood ; and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in the blood, and splashing it about one another, looked like so many butchers.
182. oldal - ... so wise and prudent, declared his purpose of joining Charles, most of the gentlemen in that part of the country where • he lived, who favoured the Pretender's cause, put themselves under his command, thinking they could not follow a better or a safer guide than Lord Pitsligo.