The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 6Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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Page 191
... Jacobites , the party sent to arrest him were afraid to attempt the execution of their commission . He remained , therefore , at his own castle of Dudhope , near Dundee , where he had an opportunity of corresponding with the Highland ...
... Jacobites , the party sent to arrest him were afraid to attempt the execution of their commission . He remained , therefore , at his own castle of Dudhope , near Dundee , where he had an opportunity of corresponding with the Highland ...
Page 195
... Jacobite general of the money deposited in his hands , as the. he galloped towards the clan of MacDonald , and was in the act of bringing them to the charge , with his right arm elevated , as if pointing the way to victory , when he was ...
... Jacobite general of the money deposited in his hands , as the. he galloped towards the clan of MacDonald , and was in the act of bringing them to the charge , with his right arm elevated , as if pointing the way to victory , when he was ...
Page 196
... Jacobite General descended the Spey , as far as a place called Crom- dale , where he quartered his army , about eighteen hundred men , in the hamlets in the vicinity . Sir Thomas Livingstone , an excellent old officer , who commanded on ...
... Jacobite General descended the Spey , as far as a place called Crom- dale , where he quartered his army , about eighteen hundred men , in the hamlets in the vicinity . Sir Thomas Livingstone , an excellent old officer , who commanded on ...
Page 197
... Jacobites at heart as before the pacification . There remained , however , after the Highlands were thus partially settled ... Jacobite friends on shore , and exercised , by means of their boats , a sort of privateering warfare on such ...
... Jacobites at heart as before the pacification . There remained , however , after the Highlands were thus partially settled ... Jacobite friends on shore , and exercised , by means of their boats , a sort of privateering warfare on such ...
Page 198
... Jacobites began to hold intercourse with the most violent Presbyterians , and both parties voted together in ... Jacobitism ; but there were some who regarded their own patri- monial advantages more than political questions con- cerning ...
... Jacobites began to hold intercourse with the most violent Presbyterians , and both parties voted together in ... Jacobitism ; but there were some who regarded their own patri- monial advantages more than political questions con- cerning ...
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