 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1855 - 860 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...dirge was still repeated by the population of the valley.* * Deposition of Ronald Macdo- 1773. I quote Mrs. Grant's tuthonald in the Report of 1695 ;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1855 - 704 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...hereditary bard of the tribe took his seat on a rock tfhich overhung the place of slaughter, and poured forth a long lament over his murdered brethren and... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...dirge was still repeated by the population of the valley." Macaulay. 209 DOMESTIC ASSOCIATIONS. HOME DUTY AND SOCIAL DUTY. I MUST begin by telling you... | |
 | 1856 - 870 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...desolate home. Eighty years later that sad dirge was »till repeated by the population of the valley."— Vol. IV., pp. 209—212. In presenting a view... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1858 - 908 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...dirge was still repeated by the population of the valley.* * Deposition of Ronald Macdo- 1773. I quote Mrs. Grant's autlionald in the Report of 1695... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1858 - 424 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...dirge was still repeated by the population of the valley.* The survivors might well apprehend that they had escaped the shot and the sword only to perish... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 424 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition...dirge was still repeated by the population of the valley.* The survivors might well apprehend that they had escaped the shot and the sword only to perish... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...that Lord Macaulay imports into his History the most improbable incident that she relates — -namely, that " the hereditary bard of the tribe took his seat...poured forth a long lament over his murdered brethren und his desolate home." Mrs. Grant's bard bears too evident a likeness to the gentleman of the same... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture ... The tradition...runs that the hereditary bard of the tribe took his sent on a rock which overhung the place of slaughter, and poured forth a long lament over his murdered... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...that she relates — initeiely, that '' thsí hereditary hard of the trihe took his seat on a rueí: which overhung the place of slaughter, and poured forth a long lament over his umrdere,] hrethren and his desolate home." Mrs. Grant's hard hears too evident a likeness to the gentleman... | |
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... weariness, and want were not less numerous than those who were slain by the assassins. When the troops had retired, the Macdonalds crept out of the caverns of Glencoe, ventured back to the spot where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched... 
