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... Rapparees , was rabbled by a mob of Scotch Covenanters . * He presented to the Commons a petition setting forth the destitute condition to which the widows and orphans of some brave men who had fallen during the siege were now reduced ...
... Rapparees , was rabbled by a mob of Scotch Covenanters . * He presented to the Commons a petition setting forth the destitute condition to which the widows and orphans of some brave men who had fallen during the siege were now reduced ...
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... Rapparee , for men who had delivered up to a tyrant the charter and the immemorial privileges of London , for men who ... Rapparees , a Poem , 1691. The poet says of one of the new civic functionaries : " Soon his pretence to conscience ...
... Rapparee , for men who had delivered up to a tyrant the charter and the immemorial privileges of London , for men who ... Rapparees , a Poem , 1691. The poet says of one of the new civic functionaries : " Soon his pretence to conscience ...
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... Rapparees . Indeed a gang of Rapparees gave less annoyance to peaceable citizens , and more annoyance to the enemy , than a regiment of infantry . Avaux strongly represented , in a memorial which he delivered to James , the abuses which ...
... Rapparees . Indeed a gang of Rapparees gave less annoyance to peaceable citizens , and more annoyance to the enemy , than a regiment of infantry . Avaux strongly represented , in a memorial which he delivered to James , the abuses which ...
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... Rapparees . The cattle had been slaughtered : the planta- tions had been cut down : the fences and houses were in ruins . Not a human being was to be found near the road , except a few naked and meagre wretches who had no food but the ...
... Rapparees . The cattle had been slaughtered : the planta- tions had been cut down : the fences and houses were in ruins . Not a human being was to be found near the road , except a few naked and meagre wretches who had no food but the ...
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... Rapparees , who had sacked the dwellings and skinned the cattle of the Englishry of Leinster , or of French dragoons accustomed to live at free quarter on the Protestants of Auvergne . Whigs and Tories joined in thank- ing God for this ...
... Rapparees , who had sacked the dwellings and skinned the cattle of the Englishry of Leinster , or of French dragoons accustomed to live at free quarter on the Protestants of Auvergne . Whigs and Tories joined in thank- ing God for this ...
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Page 617 - At every stage in the growth of that debt the nation has set up the same cry of anguish and despair. At every stage in the growth of that debt it has been seriously asserted by wise men that bankruptcy and ruin were at hand. Yet still the debt went on growing; and still bankruptcy and ruin were as remote as ever.
Page 528 - John's suspicions were quieted. He returned to his house, and lay down to rest. It was five in the morning. Hamilton and his men were still some miles off; and the avenues which they were to have secured were open. But the orders which Glenlyon had received were precise ; and he began to execute them at the little village where he was himself quartered. His host Inverriggen and nine other Macdonalds were dragged out of their beds, bound hand and foot, and murdered.
Page 454 - There were indeed Irish Roman Catholics of great ability, energy and ambition : but they were to be found everywhere except in Ireland, at Versailles and at Saint. Ildefonso, in the armies of Frederic and in the armies of Maria Theresa. One exile became a Marshal of France. Another became Prime Minister of Spain. If he had...
Page 530 - ... mountain ravens, can never be known. But it is probable that those who perished by cold, weariness, and want were not less numerous than those who were slain by the assassins. When the troops had retired, the Macdonalds crept out of the caverns of Glencoe, ventured back to the spot where the huts had formerly stood, collected the scorched corpses from among the smoking ruins, and performed some rude rites of sepulture. The tradition runs that the hereditary bard of the tribe took his seat on...
Page 612 - Company. In a pompous advertisement it was announced that the directors of the Royal Academies Company had engaged the best masters in every branch of knowledge, and were about to issue twenty thousand tickets at twenty shillings each. There was to be a lottery : two thousand prizes were to be drawn; and the fortunate holders of the prizes were to be taught, at the charge of the Company, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, conic sections, trigonometry, heraldry, japanning, fortification, bookkeeping...
Page 620 - Here it is sufficient to say that the prophets of evil were under a double delusion. They erroneously imagined that there was an exact analogy between the case of an individual who is in debt to another individual and the case of a society which is in debt to a part of itself; and this analogy led them into endless mistakes about the effect of the system of funding.
Page 529 - Macdonald was found alive. He was probably too infirm to fly, and, as he was above seventy, was not included in the orders under which Glenlyon had acted. Hamilton murdered the old man in cold blood. The deserted hamlets were then set on fire ; and the troops departed, driving away with them many sheep and goats, nine hundred kine, and two hundred of the small, shaggy ponies of the Highlands.
Page 353 - that your management shall be such that we may have no reason to repent of what we have done. We never could be of the mind that violence was suited to the advancing of true religion; nor do we intend that our authority shall ever be a tool to the irregular passions of any party. Moderation is what religion enjoins, what neighbouring Churches expect from you, and what we recommend to you.
Page 612 - The natural effect of this state of things was that a crowd of projectors, ingenious and absurd, honest and knavish, employed themselves in devising new schemes for the employment of redundant capital. It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London. In the short space of four years a crowd of companies, every one of...
Page 261 - It is melancholy to relate that Penn, while professing to consider even defensive war as sinful, did everything in his power to bring a foreign army into the heart of his own country. He wrote to inform James that the adherents of the Prince of Orange dreaded nothing so much as an appeal to the sword, and that, if England were now invaded from France or from Ireland, the number of Koyal* Life of James, ii.