 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 588 pages
...heart good," said an eye-witness, with a degree of national exultation at the animating spectacle, " to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills, as oft I did, with great contentment and joy ; our hill was garnished on the top, toward the south and east,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1835 - 592 pages
...description of that extraordinary camp " It would have done you good," he remarks in one of his letters, " to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills, as on as I did, with great contentment and joy ; for I was there among the rest, being chosen preacher... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1841 - 602 pages
...described with such naivete by Baillie, that we cannot give it better than in his own words : — " It would have done you good to have cast your eyes...athort our brave and rich hills, as oft as I did with great contentment and joy, for I was there among the rest, having been chosen preacher by the gentlemen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1847 - 904 pages
...of that extraordinary camp. — " It would have done you good," he remarks in one of his letters, " to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills, as oft as I did, with great contentment and joy ; for I was there among the rest, being chosen preacher by the gentlemen... | |
 | Zacharie Boyd - Christian poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Law in 1639, at one of the Church's campaigns, "It would have done you good (says he) to have casten your eyes athort our brave and rich Hills as oft as I did with great contentment and joy, for I (quoth the wren) was there among the rest, being chosen preacher by... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 624 pages
...heart good," said an eye-witness, with a degree of national exultation at the animating spectacle, "to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills, as oft I did, with great contentment and joy ; our hill was garnished on the top, toward the south and east,... | |
 | 1864 - 936 pages
...describe this encampment, but merely quote the quaint description of an eyewitness, Baillic : — " It would have done you good to have cast your eyes...athort our brave and rich hills, as oft as I did, with great contentment and joy; for I was there among the rest, having been chosen preacher by the gentlemen... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Scotland - 1875 - 602 pages
...is described with such naivete by Baillie, that we cannot give it better than in his own words: — "It would have done you good to have cast your eyes...athort our brave and rich hills as oft as I did with great contentment and joy; for I was there among the rest, having been chosen preacher by the gentlemen... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1877 - 832 pages
...the cause of liberty and religion. "It would have done you good," he remarks in one of hi* letters, " to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills as oft as I did, with great contentment and joy ; for I was there among the rest, being chosen preacher by the gentlemen... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1884 - 538 pages
...I., p. 215. He gives an interesting account of the Scottish Covenanting army as it lay encamped. " It would have done you good to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich Hill, as I oft did, with great pleasure and joy ; for I was there among the rest, being clrosen preacher... | |
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It would have done you good," he remarks in one of his letters, " to have cast your eyes athort our brave and rich hills, as oft as I did, with great contentment and joy ; for I was there among the rest, being chosen preacher by the gentlemen of our shire,... 
