Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745W. & R. Chambers, 1834 - 511 pàgines |
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Pàgina 451 - I have sent your daughter from this country, lest she should be any way frightened with the troops lying here. She has got one Betty Burke, an Irish girl, who, as she tells me, is a good spinster. If her spinning pleases you, you may keep her till she spin all your lint; or, if you have any wool to spin, you may employ her.
Pàgina 33 - I thought it deserved ; upon which they flew into a violent rage, and insisted upon my doing the same by him. As this flowed solely from the poor men's love and concern for me, I did not know how to be angry with them for it, and tried to bring them to temper by representing that it was a mean barbarous principle among princes...
Pàgina 87 - I direct and order, that, as there is now a peace, and I may die the common way, my carcase may be put any where...
Pàgina 372 - But Donald would not hear of that proposal at all, assuring the Prince, that it was impossible for them to return to the land again, because the squall was against them, and that, if they should steer for the rock, the boat would undoubtedly stave to pieces, and all of them behoved to be drowned ; for there was no...
Pàgina 404 - O'Neil, Miss Flora MacDonald, and her servant, Neil MacKechan, went to the place where the Prince was, being about eight Scotch miles. He was then in a very little house or hut, assisting in the roasting of his dinner, which consisted of the heart, liver, kidneys, &c., of a bullock or sheep, upon a wooden spit.
Pàgina 9 - Sir, I hope this is an excellent omen, and promises good things to us. The king of birds is come to welcome your royal highness upon your arrival in Scotland.
Pàgina 468 - There is not a person," he said, " who knows what the air of a noble or great man is, but, upon seeing the Prince in any disguise he could put on, would see something about him that was not ordinary — something of the stately and grand...
Pàgina 11 - The prince, not being accustomed to such fires in the middle of the room, and there being no other chimney than a hole in the roof, was almost choked, and was obliged to go often to the door for fresh air.
Pàgina 481 - July that those of Sir Alexander MacDonald's following have been most faithful to me in my distress, and contributed greatly to my preservation.' Then he added, ' I hope, Mr. MacKinnon, you will not desert me too and leave me in the lurch...
Pàgina 411 - Then Kingsburgh sent a guide* with him to Portree, thro' all byways, while Miss MacDonald went thither on horseback by another road, thereby the better to gain intelligence and at the same time to prevent a discovery. They were very wet, it having rained very much. Here he only dried his clothes, took some little refreshment, and staid about two hours.