| James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1820 - 416 pągines
...prisoners, with orders that they should want for nothing. The panic-terror of the English surpasses all imagination. They threw down their arms that they...might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves by their fears of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in a... | |
| 1821 - 536 pągines
...arms that they might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves by their fears of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in a condition, ftom their nuaibers, to preserve order in their retreat, not one thought of defending himself. Terror... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1827 - 334 pągines
...considered, it was perhaps quite as good that " they had got rid of the fellow in the way they did. " 1 s " The cowardice of the English," says the Chevalier...their retreat, not one thought of defending himself. Terr ror had taken complete possession of their minds. I saw," he continues, " a youpg Highlander scarcely... | |
| John Struthers - 1828 - 676 pągines
...ordinary occasions. " They (the king's troops) threw down their arms," says the chevalier de Johnstone, " that they might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in a condition, from their numbers, to... | |
| John Struthers - 1828 - 660 pągines
...ordinary occasions. " They (the king's troops) threw down their arms," says the chevalier de Johnstone, " that they might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in a condition, from their numbers, to... | |
| 1828 - 396 pągines
...such rapidity that it seemed the effect of magic. " The panic which seized the English," says he, " surpassed all Imagination. They threw down their arms...might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves by their fears of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men, in... | |
| Jacobite minstrelsy - 1829 - 400 pągines
...sueh rapidity that it seemed the effeet of magie. " The panie whieh seized the English," says he, " surpassed all imagination. They threw down their arms that they might run with more tpeed, thus depriring themselres hy their fears of the only means of arresting the rengeanee of the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pągines
...through the midst of the Highlanders without being known. The panic terror of the English surpasses all imagination. They threw down their arms that they...might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves, by their fears, of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pągines
...through the midst of the Highlanders without heing known. The panic terror of the English surpasses all imagination. They threw down their arms that they...might run with more speed, thus depriving themselves, by their fears, of the only means of arresting the vengeance of the Highlanders. Of so many men in... | |
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