A True History of Several Honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scott: In the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and Others Adjacent Gathering Out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of Our FathersHeritage Books, 1894 - Всего страниц: 179 A family history originally published in 1688. S0517HB - $23.00 |
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Стр. xiv - Somewhat unruly, and very ill to tame. I would have none think that I call them thieves, For, if I did, it would be arrant lies.
Стр. 156 - would have been well that his zeal had stopped there. But he took arms, and intrigued in their cause, until he lost all he had in the world, and, as I have heard, run a narrow risk of being hanged, had it not been. for the interference of Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth.
Стр. xv - Free-hooters venture both Life and Limb, Good wife, and bairn, and every other thing ; He must do so, or else must starve and die ; For all his lively-hood comes of the Enemie : His Substance, Being, and his House most tight, Yet he may chance to loss all in a night ; Being driven to poverty, he must needs a Free-booter be...
Стр. 149 - Duke," resigned into the hands of the Queen his titles of Duke of Queensberry, Marquis of Dumfriesshire, Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, Viscount of Nith, Torthorwald, and Ross...
Стр. 138 - According to ancient family tradition, Buccleuch was presented to Elizabeth, who, with her usual rough and peremptory address, demanded of him, " how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous ? " —
Стр. xv - ... comes of the enemie: His substance, being, and his house most tight, Yet he may chance to lose all in a night; Being driven to poverty, he must needs a freebooter be, Yet for vulgar calumnies there is no remedie: An arrant liar calls a freebooter a thief, A freebooter may be many a man's relief: A freebooter will offer no man wrong, Nor will take none at any hand; He spoils more enemies now and then, Than many hundreds of your marshal men: Near to a border frontier in time of war: There ne'er...
Стр. 155 - Gladstone, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Acton of Aldenham.
Стр. 139 - But a rougher beast than Red Rowan I ween my legs have ne'er bestrode. " And mony a time,