The history of Scotland. With a survey of the religious history of Scotland; essays on the national music [&c.].

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Pàgina 166 - When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They swakked their swords, till sair they swat, And the blood ran down like rain. But...
Pàgina 166 - O bury me by the braken bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here.
Pàgina 105 - ... over us, who will be able to defend us. For as long as a hundred Scotsmen are left alive, we will never be subject to the dominion of England. It is not for glory, riches, or honour, that we fight, but for that liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life.
Pàgina 160 - Thanks to God, there are but few of my ancestors who have died in chambers or in their beds. I bid you, therefore, revenge my death, for I have but little hope of living, as my heart becomes every minute more faint. Do you, Walter and Sir John...
Pàgina 96 - Mr. Knox would sometimes come in and repose him in our College yard, and call us scholars unto him and bless us, and exhort us to know God and his work in our country, and stand by the good cause, to use our time well, and learn the good instructions and follow the good example of our masters.
Pàgina 96 - His grace, shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and His Congregation, and shall labour at our possibility to have faithful ministers, purely and truly to minister Christ's Evangel and sacraments to His people.
Pàgina 6 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Pàgina 163 - Maxwell, a lorde he was, With the Dowglas dyd he dye. Ther was slayne upon the Skottes syde, For soth as I yow saye, Of fowre and forty thowsande Scotts Went but eyghtene awaye.
Pàgina 161 - Ther schall I byde the," sayd the Dowglas, "By the fayth of my bodye:" "Thether schall I com," sayd Syr Harry Perssy, "My trowth I plyght to the.
Pàgina 163 - For I see, by thy bryght bassonet, Thow arte sum man of myght ; And so I do by thy burnysshed brande, Thow art an yerle, or ells a knyght.2 By my good faythe, sayd the noble Percy, Now haste thou rede full ryght, Yet wyll I never yelde me to the, Whyll I may stonde and fyght.

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