The Celtic Magazine, Volume 6

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Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain
A. and W. Mackenzie, 1881
 

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Página 458 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Página 205 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men...
Página 207 - Queen's Most Excellent Majesty MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY...
Página 349 - THY spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Página 424 - I dare be bold to say, there were scarce ever such strokes given in Europe, as were given that day by the Highlanders. Many of General Mackay's officers and soldiers were cut down through the skull and neck to the very...
Página 285 - Whosoever should come against it, let him not be manyyeared [or] victorious.
Página 469 - Moidart, and had come off to the ship to inquire for news, not knowing who was aboard. When he gathered from their discourse that the stranger was the Prince of Wales : when he heard his chief and his brother refuse to take arms with their Prince ; his color went and came, his eyes sparkled, he shifted his place, and grasped his sword.
Página 126 - what did you call us to take arms for ? Was it to run away ? What did the King come hither for ? Was it to see his people butchered by hangmen, and not strike a stroke for their lives ? Let us die like men, and not like dogs.
Página 206 - I do swear and as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment...
Página 205 - ... of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.

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