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... ENGLAND . TO WHICH ARE ADDED , LETTERS OF PRINCE CHARLES STUART FROM THE STUART PAPERS , COPIED BY LORD MAHON FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS . AT WINDSOR . LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . 1851 . 226.c. 68 . CONTENTS . CHARACTER AND ...
... ENGLAND . TO WHICH ARE ADDED , LETTERS OF PRINCE CHARLES STUART FROM THE STUART PAPERS , COPIED BY LORD MAHON FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS . AT WINDSOR . LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . 1851 . 226.c. 68 . CONTENTS . CHARACTER AND ...
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... England Factions at Court Jacobite negotiations at Paris Projects of Charles His triumphal return to Edinburgh Siege of the Castle begun But relinquished Charles's Proclamations · Clemency shown to the English prisoners New accessions ...
... England Factions at Court Jacobite negotiations at Paris Projects of Charles His triumphal return to Edinburgh Siege of the Castle begun But relinquished Charles's Proclamations · Clemency shown to the English prisoners New accessions ...
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... England Factions at Court Jacobite negotiations at Paris Projects of Charles His triumphal return to Edinburgh Siege of the Castle begun But relinquished Clemency shown to the English prisoners Charles's Proclamations New accessions to ...
... England Factions at Court Jacobite negotiations at Paris Projects of Charles His triumphal return to Edinburgh Siege of the Castle begun But relinquished Clemency shown to the English prisoners Charles's Proclamations New accessions to ...
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... England . * But the letters of Charles , while they prove his want of education , no less clearly display his natural powers , great energy of character , and great warmth of heart . Writing confidentially , just before he sailed for ...
... England . * But the letters of Charles , while they prove his want of education , no less clearly display his natural powers , great energy of character , and great warmth of heart . Writing confidentially , just before he sailed for ...
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... England . " Dispose of me , gentlemen , as you please , ' said Charles ; " my life is in your power , and I therefore can stipulate for nothing . Yet give me , I entreat , one " solemn promise , that if your design should succeed , the ...
... England . " Dispose of me , gentlemen , as you please , ' said Charles ; " my life is in your power , and I therefore can stipulate for nothing . Yet give me , I entreat , one " solemn promise , that if your design should succeed , the ...
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Seite 19 - Prince, his colour went and came, his eyes sparkled, he shifted his place, and grasped his sword. Charles observed his demeanour, and, turning briskly towards him, called out, ' Will not you assist me ?' 'I will, I will,' said Ranald, ' though no other man in the Highlands should draw a sword ; I am ready to die for you.
Seite 18 - CHARLES) Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology.
Seite 115 - When a shroud is perceived about one, it is a sure prognostic of death; the time is judged according to the height of it about the person; for if it is seen above the middle...
Seite 131 - Adieu! my lords, we shall never meet again in the same place.'"' He says he will be hanged ; for that his neck is so short and bended, that he should be struck in the shoulders. I did not think it possible...
Seite 82 - ... she had now parted with her jewels, her plate, and every little article of value she possessed ; the price of which, in a purse, she laid at the feet of Prince Charles, while, straining her dim eyes to gaze on his features, and pressing his hand to her shrivelled lips, she exclaimed, with affectionate rapture, in the words of Simeon, "Lord! now lettest " thou thy servant depart in peace ! " It is added that she did not survive the shock when, a few days afterwards, she was told of the retreat.
Seite 142 - Let what will happen, the stroke is struck, and I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die, and stand my ground as long as I shall have a man remaining with me.
Seite 21 - Stuart is come over to claim the crown of his ancestors, to win it, or to perish in the attempt; Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince...
Seite 78 - Cameron having assured her that they would not injure either her or her little children, or any person whatever, she looked at him for some moments with an air of surprise, and then opened a press, calling out with a loud voice, ' Come out, children; the gentleman will not eat you.
Seite 93 - Charles's own opinion, when he left them,) that the Duke had no battering artillery at his disposal : some, however, was unexpectedly brought from Whitehaven ; and on the 29th it began to play upon the mouldering walls. The besieged then desired to capitulate, but could obtain no other terms from his Royal Highness, than that " they should not be put to the sword, but reserved " for his Majesty's pleasure" — a stipulation which to many of them was only death deferred.
Seite 8 - A Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of numerous Greek Words and Passages, intended principally for Homer and Hesiod.