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George Buchanan. THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND , TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF GEORGE BUCHANAN ; WITH NOTES , AND PARSONS LIBRARY University of MICHIGAN A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT TIME . IN SIX VOLUMES . BY JAMES AIKMAN , Esq . VOL . VI ...
George Buchanan. THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND , TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF GEORGE BUCHANAN ; WITH NOTES , AND PARSONS LIBRARY University of MICHIGAN A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT TIME . IN SIX VOLUMES . BY JAMES AIKMAN , Esq . VOL . VI ...
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George Buchanan. and that God may prosper him while the time is favour- able . It is now , holy father , your business to accompany him by your zeal and by your holy benediction , which I also ask for myself , your most loving son ...
George Buchanan. and that God may prosper him while the time is favour- able . It is now , holy father , your business to accompany him by your zeal and by your holy benediction , which I also ask for myself , your most loving son ...
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George Buchanan. George , a skipper in Aberdeen , to Malcolm of Grange , to make the requisite preparations . The same express had also orders for the pretender's friends in Fife and Lothian ; but unfortunately the skipper , in drinking ...
George Buchanan. George , a skipper in Aberdeen , to Malcolm of Grange , to make the requisite preparations . The same express had also orders for the pretender's friends in Fife and Lothian ; but unfortunately the skipper , in drinking ...
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George Buchanan. convicted recusants ; the other suspended the operation of the habeas corpus act with regard to such persons as go- vernment should apprehend on suspicion of treasonable practices . The pretender and his adherents were ...
George Buchanan. convicted recusants ; the other suspended the operation of the habeas corpus act with regard to such persons as go- vernment should apprehend on suspicion of treasonable practices . The pretender and his adherents were ...
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George Buchanan. byterians ; but the more unquestionable evidence of lord Sea- field assures us , that the loyalty of the latter to queen Anne , and their zeal for religion , was indisputable . * The city of Edinburgh , depicted as so ...
George Buchanan. byterians ; but the more unquestionable evidence of lord Sea- field assures us , that the loyalty of the latter to queen Anne , and their zeal for religion , was indisputable . * The city of Edinburgh , depicted as so ...
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Page 612 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 571 - 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.
Page 558 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage, and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was VOL.
Page 436 - Act, Declaration, and Testimony for the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the Church of Scotland, agreeable to the Word of God, the Confession of Faith, the National Covenant of Scotland, and the Solemn League and Covenant of the three nations...
Page 162 - ... shall be granted before the party produces a certificate of his having received the sacrament, according to the communion of the Church of England, within the last year, and also subscribed the oaths of allegiance and supremacy.
Page 441 - He said, that by wrapping myself so close in my plaid, I would be unprepared for any sudden defence in the case of a surprise. I answered, that in such times of danger or during a war, we had a different method of using the plaid...
Page 132 - Majesty with advice aforesaid expressly declares and statutes that none of the subjects of this kingdom shall be liable to, but all and every one of them for ever free of, any oath, test or subscription within this kingdom contrary to or inconsistent with the foresaid true Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government, worship and discipline as above established...
Page 418 - Leuconomus (beneath well-sounding Greek , I slur a name a poet must not speak) Stood pilloried on infamy's high stage, And bore the pelting scorn of half an age ; The very butt of slander, and the blot For every dart that malice ever shot.
Page 199 - Ye was in the right not to come with the hundred men ye sent up to-night, when I expected four times the number. It is a pretty thing, when all the Highlands of Scotland are now rising upon their king and country's account, as I have accounts from them since they were with me, and the gentlemen of our neighbouring lowlands expecting us down to join them, that my men should be only refractory.