The Lord Advocates of Scotland: From the Close of the Fifteenth Century to the Passing of the Reform Bill, Volumen1D. Douglas, 1883 |
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Página 224 - The whole audience fixed their eyes upon the Advocate, who appeared in no small confusion, and said, ' Jerviswood, I own what you say : my thoughts there were as a private man ; but what I say here is by special direction of the privy council ;
Página 362 - As I have now the honour of being charged with the public affairs in this part of the kingdom, I can no longer remain a spectator of your lordship's conduct, and see the double game you have played for some time past, without betraying the trust reposed in me, and at once risking my reputation, and the fidelity I owe to his majesty as a good subject.
Página 255 - Stewart, advocate ; giving an account of the Prince and Princess of Orange's thoughts concerning the repeal of the test and the penal laws.
Página 365 - Mitchell, are kind-hearted, affectionate men, and they will tell the King that his faithful servant Duncan Forbes has left you a very poor man. Farewell; may the God of heaven and earth bless you.
Página 359 - A matter, replied the president, which I hope you will think of some importance. You know very well that I am, like you, a whig ; but I am also the neighbour and friend of the Highlanders, and intimately acquainted with most of their chiefs. For some time I have been revolving in my mind different schemes for reconciling the Highlanders to government, now I think the time is come to bring forward a scheme which in my opinion will certainly have that effect.
Página 20 - that our nation, being a stout nation, will never agree to have an Englishman to be king over Scotland ; and though the whole nobility of the realm would consent to it, yet our common people and the stones in the street would rise and rebel against it.
Página 149 - I will not be more tender in giving his character, for all that nearness in blood:] he was a man of great application, could seldom sleep above three hours in the twenty-four: he had studied the law carefully, and had a great quickness of thought, with an extraordinary memory. He went into very high notions of lengthened devotions, in which he continued many hours a day. He would often pray in his family two hours at a time, and had an unexhausted copiousness that way. [He was a deep enthusiast,...
Página 361 - All Jacobites, how prudent soever, became mad ; all doubtful people became Jacobites ; and all bankrupts became heroes, and talked nothing but 'hereditary rights and victory ; and what was more grievous to men of gallantry, and, if you will believe me, much more mischievous to the public, all the fine ladies, if you will except one or two, became passionately fond of the young adventurer, and used all their arts and industry for him in the most intemperate manner.
Página 234 - After the persecuting work was over, he went up to London, where he died with all the passages of his body running blood, (like Charles IX. of France, author of the Paris massacre). Physicians being brought, could give no natural cause for it, but that it was the hand of God on him for the blood he had shed in his own land. — Vide West's Memoirs, and History of the Si/fferings of the Church of Scotland.
Página 224 - When the sentence was passed, he said, " My Lords, the time is short, the sentence is sharp, but I thank my God who hath made me as fit to die as you are to live.