History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746, Bind 2Constable and Company, 1827 |
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afterwards appearance arms attended Balmerino battle of Culloden battle of Falkirk boat body Cameron Carlisle Castle Charles's Chevalier circumstances clan Clanranald command concealment conduct death despatched Donald dragoons dreadful dress Duke of Cumberland Earl Earl of Kilmarnock Edinburgh Edward Burke enemy English escape exclaimed execution expressed Falkirk fate favour fire Flora Flora MacDonald Fort Augustus fortune friends gentleman Glenaladale Government hand head Highlanders hill honour horse immediately insurgents Inverness island Jacobite John Kilmarnock King King's Kingsburgh Lady Loch Lochiel Lord George Murray Lordship MacDonald MacKinnon MacLeod Malcolm ment miles militia morning never night o'clock occasion officers party passed person Prince Charles Prince's prisoners procure regiment remained remarkable retired retreat returned Royal army Royal Highness scaffold Scotland Scottish seemed servant Skye soldiers soon South Uist sword taken tion took troops unfortunate victory wandering whole wounded young Raasay
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Side 253 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Side 165 - call you a " Pretender, but if you be, I can tell you, you are " the worst of your trade I ever saw...
Side 158 - And down by the corrie that sings to the sea, The bonnie young Flora sat sighing her lane, The dew on her plaid, and the tear in her e'e.
Side 125 - While the warm blood bedews my veins, And unimpair'd remembrance reigns, Resentment of my country's fate Within my filial breast shall beat; And, spite of her insulting foe, My sympathizing verse shall flow : " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn.
Side 238 - That you, Simon, lord Lovat, return to the prison of the Tower from whence you came; from thence you must be drawn to the place of execution; when you come there, you must be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead; for you must be cut down alive, then your bowels must be taken out and burnt before your face, then your head must be severed from your body, and your body divided into four quarters, and these must be at the king's disposal.
Side 304 - Soon after the battle of Preston, two Highlanders, in roaming through the south of Mid-Lothian, entered the farm-house of Swanston, near the Pentland Hills, where they found no one at home but an old woman. They immediately proceeded to search the house, and soon finding a web of coarse home-spun cloth, made no scruple to unroll and cut off as much as they thought would make a coat to each. The woman was exceedingly incensed at their rapacity, roared and cried, and even had the hardihood to invoke...
Side 336 - Sir," she exclaimed to Mr. Greathed, "what is this? You must have been speaking to my father about Scotland and the Highlanders. No one dares to mention these subjects in his presence.
Side 99 - It was a moment of dreadful and agonizing suspense — but only a moment ; for the whirlwind does not reap the forest with greater rapidity than the Highlanders cleared the line. They swept through and over that frail barrier, almost as easily and instantaneously as the bounding...
Side 158 - She look'd at a boat wi' the breezes that swung, Away on the wave, like a bird of the main ; An' aye as it lessen'd she sigh'd and she sung, Fareweel to the lad I shall ne'er see again ! Fareweel to my hero, the gallant and...
Side 289 - says General Stewart, " and it certainly was not consistent with the boasted freedom of our country to inflict on a whole people the severest punishment, short of death, for wearing a particular dress. Had the whole race been decimated...