The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI: Till His Accession to the Crown of England

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Harper, 1835 - 460 páginas

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Página 128 - Distinctions of colour are of His ordination. It is He who gives existence. In your temples, to His name the voice is raised in prayer ; in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still He is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty.
Página 271 - Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration ; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her- frailties, we think of her faults with less indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.
Página 83 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.
Página 220 - Elizabeth's protection that it was scarcely possible for them to refuse putting into her hands a person who had taken up arms against her ; but, as a sum of money was paid on that account, and shared between Morton and...
Página 269 - I die constant in my religion ; firm in my fidelity towards Scotland ; and unchanged in my affection to France. Commend me to my son. Tell him I have done nothing injurious to his kingdom, to his honour, or to his rights ; and God forgive all those who have thirsted, without cause, for my blood!
Página 269 - ... her, she thanked heaven that her sufferings were now so near an end, and prayed that she might be enabled to endure what still remained with decency and with fortitude. The greater part of the evening she employed in settling her worldly affairs. She wrote her testament with her own hand. Her money, her jewels, and her clothes, she distributed among her servants according to their rank or merit.
Página 261 - Nor is my spirit so broken by its past misfortunes, or so intimidated by present dangers, as to sloop to any thing unbecoming the majesty of a crowned head, or that will disgrace the ancestors from whom I am descended, and the son to whom I shall leave my throne. If I must be tried, princes alone can be my peers.
Página 271 - Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
Página 270 - ... of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befell her; we must likewise add that she was often imprudent.
Página 218 - sat on every face; silence, as in the dead of night, reigned through all the chambers of the royal apartment; the ladies and courtiers...

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