Montrose and Covenanters: Their Characters and Conduct, Illustrated from Private Letters and Other Original Documents Hitherto Unpublished, Embracing the Times of Charles the First, from the Rise of the Troubles in Scotland, to the Death of Montrose, Том 1J. Duncan, 1838 - 1120 страници |
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... Argyle's Dictatorship , -as vicious a compound as ever agitated under a veil of sanctity , - the respect due to the stern virtues of some of our early reformers , and also that admiring sympathy which the violent and impolitic ...
... Argyle's Dictatorship , -as vicious a compound as ever agitated under a veil of sanctity , - the respect due to the stern virtues of some of our early reformers , and also that admiring sympathy which the violent and impolitic ...
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... Argyle's violence - Coolness and dignity of Montrose- Affair betwixt Montrose and Lord Lindsay - Original MS . record of their respective declarations , relative to their private conversation together on the state of the country -The ...
... Argyle's violence - Coolness and dignity of Montrose- Affair betwixt Montrose and Lord Lindsay - Original MS . record of their respective declarations , relative to their private conversation together on the state of the country -The ...
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... Argyle - Montrose justified in the reasons of his sepa- ration from the Covenanters - Pious motives of the King , Page 469 ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS . I. Bishop Burnet's letters in the Napier charter - chest . II . Lord ...
... Argyle - Montrose justified in the reasons of his sepa- ration from the Covenanters - Pious motives of the King , Page 469 ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS . I. Bishop Burnet's letters in the Napier charter - chest . II . Lord ...
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... Argyle in council , and Les- lie in the field " on the one hand , " and the allurements of tempting offers " on the other hand , " - so undoubt- ingly recorded by Mr Brodie as the sole motives of his change . With the aid of original ...
... Argyle in council , and Les- lie in the field " on the one hand , " and the allurements of tempting offers " on the other hand , " - so undoubt- ingly recorded by Mr Brodie as the sole motives of his change . With the aid of original ...
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... Argyle , where he attained to the French and Italian tongues . He got great things from his Majesty , as especially a liberty to create a hundred Scots- men knights - baronet , ( of Nova Scotia , ) from every one of whom he got L. 200 ...
... Argyle , where he attained to the French and Italian tongues . He got great things from his Majesty , as especially a liberty to create a hundred Scots- men knights - baronet , ( of Nova Scotia , ) from every one of whom he got L. 200 ...
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