A Short History of ScotlandOliver and Boyd, 1908 - 618 pages |
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Page 529 - Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.
Page 397 - Scotland, and may truly vaunt it : here I sit and govern it with my pen : I write and it is done; and by a Clerk of the Council I govern Scotland now, — which others could not do by the sword.
Page 133 - ... whose story is set forth in Kingsley's Westward Ho ! Although John Hawkins himself took no actual part in any of these expeditions to America, he sent out many of his own ships and crews, and was the promoter of many buccaneering exploits. Two years later Drake was off again, this time on a voyage that was to become one of the most famous in the history of navigation. This was in 1577 when he began his voyage to the Straits of Magellan, which was to end by his circumnavigation of the world. Many...
Page 191 - He was," says Froissart, whose information regarding this expedition is in a high degree minute and curious, "a comely tall man, but with eyes so bloodshot that they looked as if they were lined with scarlet; and it soon became evident that he himself preferred a quiet life to war; yet he had nine sons who loved arms.
Page 127 - Bruce, who was the son of the second daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, the brother of William the Lion.
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Page 213 - God granting me life," he is said to have exclaimed, " I will make the key keep the castle and the bracken-bush the cow." All ranks of his people, indeed, soon discovered that in James they were to have a very different master from Robert II and Robert III. He was now in his 3oth year, and in full vigour of body and mind. Somewhat below the middle height, he possessed great personal strength, and excelled in all manly...
Page 358 - Edinburgh, and we are told that "he made three thousand persons shed tears for the loss of such a good and godly governor.
Page 207 - fought between Scots and English, but between Highlanders and Lowlanders, and Sir Walter Scott thought that it decided which of the two were to have the chief power in Scotland. The battle came about in this way. The Lord" of the Isles, that is, of the Western Islands or Hebrides, whose name was Donald, was very anxious to get the Earldom of Ross, which he said belonged to his wife. Now the Duke of Albany would not allow this for two reasons. First, if Donald got the Earldom it would have made him...
Page 414 - Villain! dost thou say the Mass at my lug .!'. threw the stool on which she had been sitting, at the Dean's head. A wild uproar commenced that instant. The Service was interrupted. The women invaded the desk with execrations and outcries, and the Dean disengaged himself from his surplice to escape from their hands."— Laing's Hist, of Scotland, vol.