Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, Հատոր 1

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T. G. Stevenson, 1859

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Էջ 337 - A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland : in four conferences, wherein the answer to the dialogues betwixt the conformist and the nonconformist is examined.
Էջ 299 - And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Էջ 158 - But under this soft exterior was hidden a spirit unbounded in daring and in aspiring, yet cautious and prudent as that of Machiavel himself. Profound in politics, and imbued, of course, with that disregard for individual rights which its intrigues usually generate, this leader was cool and collected in danger, fierce and ardent in pursuing success, careless of facing death himself, and ruthless in inflicting it upon others.
Էջ 45 - When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be, — When the Devil got well, the Devil a monk was he.
Էջ 152 - 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 thinkestthou of thy husband, now, woman?' She said, ' I thought ever much of him, and now as much as ever.
Էջ 302 - I am not come here for murder, for they have no matter of fact to charge me with, but only my judgment. I am about twenty years of age. At fourteen or fifteen I was a hearer of the curates and indulged ; and while I was a hearer of these I was a blasphemer and...
Էջ 350 - ... when May, the master of the privy purse, asked him in his familiar way what he thought now of his Lauderdale, he answered, as May himself told me, that they had objected many damned things that he had done against them, but there was nothing objected that was against his service 1.
Էջ 324 - States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.
Էջ xxxvii - 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.
Էջ 60 - Church, moved with love to souls, and somewhat of the old apostolic spirit,"* in the following words : — "That truculent traitor, James Sharpe, the Arch-prelate, &c., received the just demerit of his perfidy, apostacy, sorceries, villanies, and murders — sharp arrows of the mighty and coals of juniper. For, upon the 3d of May 1679, several worthy gentlemen, with some other men of courage and zeal for the cause of God and the good of the country, executed righteous judgment upon him...

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