The Scot Abroad, Volume 1Blackwood, 1864 - 384 páginas |
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John Hill Burton. pretty accurate diplomatic description of the position of the Covenanting force . * corps Down to the time when all the pomps and vani- ties of the French crown were swept away along with its substantial power , the ...
John Hill Burton. pretty accurate diplomatic description of the position of the Covenanting force . * corps Down to the time when all the pomps and vani- ties of the French crown were swept away along with its substantial power , the ...
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... force of ruffians , and , descending on the Lowland like an avalanche , fell on the episcopal city of Elgin and burned its noble cathedral . This was going rather too far . The Wolf had not only to disgorge , but to propitiate the ...
... force of ruffians , and , descending on the Lowland like an avalanche , fell on the episcopal city of Elgin and burned its noble cathedral . This was going rather too far . The Wolf had not only to disgorge , but to propitiate the ...
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... force which held the Highland caterans in utter scorn as a set of rabble to be swept before them . The Wolf cub , however , alighted on the tactic which , in later times , made a Highland force terri- ble - a concentrated rush on the ...
... force which held the Highland caterans in utter scorn as a set of rabble to be swept before them . The Wolf cub , however , alighted on the tactic which , in later times , made a Highland force terri- ble - a concentrated rush on the ...
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... force the Scots were free . They did not go to France to act the mendi- cant or marauder , but to be teachers and leaders ; and the evil of their presence was not that their wretchedness made them a nuisance , but that their ambition ...
... force the Scots were free . They did not go to France to act the mendi- cant or marauder , but to be teachers and leaders ; and the evil of their presence was not that their wretchedness made them a nuisance , but that their ambition ...
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... force collected so suddenly by the Scots lords contained fifteen thousand mounted men ; nor can we be quite reconciled to the statement though their steeds were the small mountain horses called hackneys . The force , however , was ...
... force collected so suddenly by the Scots lords contained fifteen thousand mounted men ; nor can we be quite reconciled to the statement though their steeds were the small mountain horses called hackneys . The force , however , was ...
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