The History of Scotland from the Union to the Abolition of the Abolition of the Heritable Jurisdictions in MDCCXLVII: To which is Subjoined a Review of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the Progress of Society, the State of the Arts, &c., to the Year MDCCCXXVII.Blackie, Fullarton & Company, 1828 |
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Page viii
... favour bestowed on them as an invidious distinction . Vain of his kingcraft , and exulting in the omnipotency of prerogative , James appears to have expected to be able to unite and to amalgamate his subjects , however different their ...
... favour bestowed on them as an invidious distinction . Vain of his kingcraft , and exulting in the omnipotency of prerogative , James appears to have expected to be able to unite and to amalgamate his subjects , however different their ...
Page xiii
... favour upon the best possible terms , and , their mercenary motives being but ill concealed , they were hated and despised by all . Their leader at this time was the marquis of Tweedale . When the house proceeded to business , the ...
... favour upon the best possible terms , and , their mercenary motives being but ill concealed , they were hated and despised by all . Their leader at this time was the marquis of Tweedale . When the house proceeded to business , the ...
Page xxxii
... favour with those presbyterians who saw their meaning , which was not to secure presbytery , a system they had always considered as their bane , but to prevent the union , by irritating England , and by so stating Sir John Areskin ...
... favour with those presbyterians who saw their meaning , which was not to secure presbytery , a system they had always considered as their bane , but to prevent the union , by irritating England , and by so stating Sir John Areskin ...
Page xxxvi
... favour of the succession of the house of Han- over , on which account the duke of Athol refused to sign it , but he en- gaged to leave the house along with the party , and to join in all that should be afterwards thought to be necessary ...
... favour of the succession of the house of Han- over , on which account the duke of Athol refused to sign it , but he en- gaged to leave the house along with the party , and to join in all that should be afterwards thought to be necessary ...
Page xlv
... favours of the subjects of Scot- land , to and in favours of the subjects of England , which shall not suspend or dero- gate from the force and effect of this present ratification , but shall be understood as herein included , without ...
... favours of the subjects of Scot- land , to and in favours of the subjects of England , which shall not suspend or dero- gate from the force and effect of this present ratification , but shall be understood as herein included , without ...
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Page xxiv - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page xxxviii - An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown.
Page 284 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 265 - ... be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same...
Page 570 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Page 232 - Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain, in the Protestant Line...
Page xliii - An act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling papists from sitting in either house of parliament.
Page xxxviii - ... the said crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person or persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said person or persons so reconciled, holding communion or professing or marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead.
Page 457 - That it is not sound and orthodox to teach that we must forsake sin in order to our coming to Christ, and instating us in covenant with God...
Page xlii - Queen's Majesty and her Royal successors, may continue a Privy Council in Scotland, for preserving of public peace and order, until the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit to alter it, or establish any other effectual method for that end.