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... Douglas in his Baronage , where he frequently mentions the bitter feuds between Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in refer- ence to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up ...
... Douglas in his Baronage , where he frequently mentions the bitter feuds between Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in refer- ence to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up ...
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... Douglas all but overbalanced its authority on the Southern border , and the North was at the same time torn in pieces by the yet untamed savageness of the Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains ...
... Douglas all but overbalanced its authority on the Southern border , and the North was at the same time torn in pieces by the yet untamed savageness of the Highland races , and the daring loftiness to which some of the remoter chieftains ...
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... Douglas in his Baronage , where he frequently mentions the bitter feuds between Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in refer- ence to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up ...
... Douglas in his Baronage , where he frequently mentions the bitter feuds between Clan Chattan and Clan Kay , and identifies the latter sept , in refer- ence to the events of 1396 , with the Camerons . It is perhaps impossible to clear up ...
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... Douglas , the most active of the gang . Let him arise at your call — the claimant of wealth which he does not possess the partaker of the illustrious blood of Douglas , but which in his veins is sullied with illegitimacy . Paint him the ...
... Douglas , the most active of the gang . Let him arise at your call — the claimant of wealth which he does not possess the partaker of the illustrious blood of Douglas , but which in his veins is sullied with illegitimacy . Paint him the ...
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... Douglas better to deal with ? " There was no answer for a minute . They looked on each other with fallen countenances and blanched lips . But Henry Smith spoke out boldly , and in a decided voice , the sentiments which all felt , but ...
... Douglas better to deal with ? " There was no answer for a minute . They looked on each other with fallen countenances and blanched lips . But Henry Smith spoke out boldly , and in a decided voice , the sentiments which all felt , but ...
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Page 399 - The details are but imperfectly known to me — but the certainty is, that my unhappy nephew was found dead in his apartment last night from sudden illness — as I have heard.
Page 147 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 111 - THE Duke of Albany was, like his royal brother, named Robert. The Christian name of the latter had been John, until he was called to the throne; when the superstition of the times observed that the name had been connected with misfortune in the lives and reigns of John of Engknd, John of France, and John Baliol of Scotland.
Page 305 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 340 - It is an opportunity lost," said Ramorny ; " but we must delay our blow till he has seen this beauty, Catharine Glover. She may be hereafter a witness that she saw him in good health, and master of his own motions, a brief space before — you understand me ?" Dwining nodded assent, and added, " There is no time lost ; for there is little difficulty in blighting a flower, exhausted from having been made to bloom too soon.