An Inquiry, Historical and Critical, Into the Evidence Against Mary, Queen of Scots: And an Examination of the Histories of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Hume, with Respect to that Evidence, Volumen1T. Cadell, 1790 - 422 páginas |
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Página 185 - By comparing the letters, as they ftand in the three different languages, he has, to a demonftration, fhown, that in place of the Scotch and Latin being tranflated from the French originals, thefe laft are palpably a verfion from the Latin, and the Latin again a verfion from the Scotch. The Scotch is apparently original : the thoughts therein are naturally and...
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Página 144 - was to swear a debt against me, and offered to prove it by bond or bill of my handwriting; if I knew this bond to be a false writing, what would be my defence ? Show me the bond itself, and I will prove it a forgery. If he withdrew the bond, and refused to let me see it, what would be the presumption ? Surely that the bond was forged, and that the user was himself the forger. The case is precisely similar to the...
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Página 246 - ... appeal that Lady Lennox began to consider the subject more seriously. Robertson either did not know, or chose to conceal the fact, that she saw cause soon after receiving Mary's letter decidedly to change her opinions. In 1578 Mary wrote to the Archbishop of Glasgow to this effect:—"The Countess of Lennox, my mother-in-law, died about a month ago. This good lady, thanks to God, has been in very good intelligence and correspondence with me for the last five or six years. She has confessed to...