Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, Volume 2 |
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Page 128 - The Duke of York, it was remarked, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle which some of the worst men then living were unable to contemplate without pity and horror. He not only came to council when the torture was to be inflicted, but watched the agonies of the sufferers with that sort of interest and complacency with which men observe a curious experiment in science.
Page 222 - Strathaven about six in the morning yesterday ; and resolving to convey them to this, I thought that we might make a little tour, to see if we could fall upon a conventicle ; which we did little to our advantage. For, when we came in sight of them...
Page 69 - Will she take the abjuration ? " he demanded. " Never ! " she exclaimed.
Page xv - but your western zealots would require to be faithfully portrayed in order to bring him out with the right effect.
Page 36 - Sunday bard to join in your condemnation, ' and yet come of a noble Graeme ! ' I admit he was tant soit peu sauvage, but he was a noble savage; and the beastly Covenanters against whom he acted, hardly had any claim to be called men, unless what was founded on their walking- upon their hind feet.
Page xiii - Come, come, let's have no more of this whining work,' interrupted Clavers suddenly. ' Soldiers ! do your duty.' — But the words fell upon a circle of statues ; and though they all stood with their muskets presented, there was not a finger which had power to draw the fatal trigger. There ensued an awful pause, through which a ' God Almighty bless your tender hearts ! ' was heard coming from the lips of the now agitated and almost distracted wife.
Page 281 - As he rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But the young plants of grace they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking, luck to thy bonnet, thou Bonny Dundee ! Come fill up my cup, etc.
Page 69 - Murdered for owning Christ supreme, Head of his Church, and no more crime. But for not owning prelacy, And not abjuring presbytery, Within the sea, tied to a stake, She suffered for Christ Jesus
Page 90 - Upon which Major Winram offered the oath of abjuration to her, either to swear it, or return to the waters. She refused it, saying, 'I will not; I am one of Christ's children ; let me go.' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare, being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration and hear the curates.
Page 50 - ... as at the saddest spectacle they had ever seen. When he had led us a mile without the town, he then declared what further he had in commission — that we...