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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 2701860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - 1871 - 720 Seiten
...names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These brilliant sentences of the historian stirred up Sheriff Mark Napier, a writer of keen Jacobite... | |
| 1860 - 796 Seiten
...certainly not of violent temper nor obdurate heart, and has left a name which, wherever the English race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of anything but hatred. To come to more important matters : When Lord Maeaulay asserts that Claverhouse... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 Seiten
...devils and damned souls.* The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...Western Lowlands into madness, would be an endless task. A few instances must suffice ; and all those instances shall be taken from the history of a single... | |
| 1849 - 742 Seiten
...distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of oMurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish...Western Lowlands into madness, would be an endless task. A few instances must suffice, and all these instances must be taken from the history of a single fortnight.... | |
| 1849 - 588 Seiten
...devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and N Ьу which this man and men like him, goaded the peasantry of the Western Lowlands into madness, would... | |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 40 Seiten
...devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These are hard words : let us now see how they are justified. The name which has been left by " the... | |
| 1849 - 636 Seiten
...devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. * See Nelson's Pnritan Dirincv, Life of Baxter, p. xxiii., Loud, 184C, for a full Recount of thls interesting... | |
| 1849 - 858 Seiten
...devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophot on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." Mr. Macaulay's mistake in calling Claverhouse James instead of John is viewed as a very serious one... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 Seiten
...devils and damned souls. J The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face qf the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. To recapitulate all the crimes by which... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 Seiten
...devils and damned souls.* The chief of this Tophet on earth , a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of...temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, whereever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy... | |
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