The History of Scotland: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James VI. to the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne, Volume 4J. Mawman, 1804 - Scotland |
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... king . The fairest hopes were entertained of the prosperity of the new reign ; which nothing could have disappointed but the misconduct or rather the crimes of government ; the predilection of Charles for a foreign interest ; his secret ...
... king . The fairest hopes were entertained of the prosperity of the new reign ; which nothing could have disappointed but the misconduct or rather the crimes of government ; the predilection of Charles for a foreign interest ; his secret ...
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... king himself was indifferent to religion ; but Clarendon , whose mind was contracted and soured by religious bigotry , was irreconcileable to the- very existence of their church . That upright and able , but not enlightened statesman ...
... king himself was indifferent to religion ; but Clarendon , whose mind was contracted and soured by religious bigotry , was irreconcileable to the- very existence of their church . That upright and able , but not enlightened statesman ...
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... king had subscribed . They were shipped for Scotland after a fruitless search ; but the vessel was wrecked in the ... kings . The command of the militia , the power of declaring war , the right to summon or dissolve conventions ...
... king had subscribed . They were shipped for Scotland after a fruitless search ; but the vessel was wrecked in the ... kings . The command of the militia , the power of declaring war , the right to summon or dissolve conventions ...
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... king's consent . His supremacy was indirectly established by an oath of allegiance , that the sovereign was supreme governor in all cases , over all persons , ecclesiastical and civil ; and although the chancellor protested that no ...
... king's consent . His supremacy was indirectly established by an oath of allegiance , that the sovereign was supreme governor in all cases , over all persons , ecclesiastical and civil ; and although the chancellor protested that no ...
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... king from his promise to preserve the established church . His father had presided in the one , and himself in the other . The presbyterian church was con- firmed by the acts of both ; the repeal of which might excite a spirit of ...
... king from his promise to preserve the established church . His father had presided in the one , and himself in the other . The presbyterian church was con- firmed by the acts of both ; the repeal of which might excite a spirit of ...
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Page 452 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 454 - Age is dark and unlovely; it is like the glimmering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills: the blast of the north is on the plain; the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey.
Page 452 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course?
Page 462 - Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Page 463 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 453 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 453 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 451 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls: and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round...
Page 458 - ... rage And plunge us in the flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
Page 449 - Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon...