Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Том 2Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
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Страница 224 - I never found myself obliged, either by the law of God or nature, to set a sentry at his door for his safety ; but as he was always to take his advantage, as it appeareth, so, I of him to take any opportunity offered.
Страница 136 - Pope, whereby he not only claims to be spiritual head of all Christians but also to have an imperial civil power over all kings and emperors, dethroning and decrowning princes with his foot as pleaseth him, and dispensing and disposing of all kingdoms and empires at his appetite.
Страница 136 - I protest before the great God, and since I am here as upon my testament it is no place for me to lie in, that ye shall never find with any Highland or Border thieves greater ingratitude and more lies and vile perjuries, than with these fanatic spirits...
Страница 207 - ... carrying on of the late troubles, were unlawful and seditious. And particularly that these oaths, whereof the one was commonly called ' The National Covenant ' (as it was sworn and explained in the year 1638, and thereafter), and the other entituled ' A Solemn League and Covenant...
Страница 276 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like...
Страница 207 - I judge it unlawful to subjects, upon pretence of reformation, or any other pretence whatsoever, to enter into leagues and covenants, or to take up arms against the king, or those commissioned by him...
Страница 275 - Came out you damned rogues,' and was shot through the body, and fell down dead, without speaking one word. The other got up, upon this, to put to the door, and received a shot in the thigh from the same hand. The assassin alighted from his horse, and came in upon the soldier, who grappled a little with him, till another came up and knocked him down.
Страница 169 - Towns, Parishes, Incorporations, and Societies, throughout Scotland, against a Proposed Repeal of the Statutes enacted and for ever ratified by the Revolution and Union Parliament, for preventing the Growth of Popery.
Страница 113 - ... up presently to the place, saw nae person there, though the Links be very plain : Only, casting his eye on the place where shee stood, he saw tuo words drawn or written as it had been with a staff upon the sand, " Sentenced and condemned !" upon which he came home pensive and melancholy, and in a litle sickness (sickens) and dyes.
Страница 115 - It was said to me in my sleep, by a voice like a man's, that the pack was lying in such a place. I got a sight of the place just as if I had been awake ; I never saw the place before. The voice said in Gaelic, ' The pack of the merchant is lying in a cairn of stones in a hole near :heir house.