The Martyrs, Heroes and Bards of the Scottish CovenantCockshaw, 1852 - 256 páginas |
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afterwards Alexander Peden amid Arthur's Seat assembly Ayrshire Bass Rock battle BATTLES OF DRUMCLOG beauty became become bishops blood Bothwell brave Burley burning called Cameron Cameronians cause character Charles christian church church of Scotland Claverhouse clergy conscience courage Cove Covenanters Cromwell dark death deep divine Drumclog Dunottar castle earnest earth ecclesiastical Edinburgh enemies enthusiasm Erastianism escape evil eyes faith fathers feeling fierce fire genius Glasgow Glencoe glory Grassmarket Hackstoun Hamilton hand heart heaven highland hills historian indulgence James John king Lord Magus Muir martyrs massacre of Glencoe ment mind ministers moral morning mountains nanters never noble oath Old Mortality once parliament party passed persecution persecutors piety popery prayer preach presbyterian Priesthill principle prisoners protestant religion religious Renwick Rutherfurd scene Scotland Scott Scottish seemed soldiers solemn soul spirit sublime suffered sword tion truth tulchans voice whole wilderness words
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Página 114 - When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese, that roll'd Mother with infant down the rocks.
Página 114 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Página 8 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Página 8 - Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
Página 55 - And now I leave off to speak any more to creatures, and begin my intercourse with God, which shall never be broken off: farewell father and mother, friends and relations ; farewell the world and all delights ; farewell meat and drink ; farewell sun, moon, and stars; welcome God and Father; welcome sweet Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant; welcome blessed Spirit of grace and God of all consolation; welcome glory- welcome eternal life; and welcome death...
Página 97 - To the muirland of mist where the martyrs lay ; Where Cameron's sword and his bible are seen, Engraved on the stone where the heather grows green. 'Twas a dream of those ages of darkness and blood, When the minister's home was the mountain and wood ; When in Wellwood's dark valley the standard of Zion, All bloody and torn 'mong the heather was lying.
Página 3 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 148 - In the afternoon of that day, he said, " Oh ! that all my brethren in the public may know what a Master I have served, and what peace I have this day. I Shall sleep in Christ, and when I awake I shall be satisfied with his likeness.
Página 39 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 138 - Seas, locking up Italy from the Gallic and Teutonic hordes till the power and spirit of Rome had reached their maturity, and she had opened the wide forest of Europe to the light, spread far her laws and language, and planted the seeds of many mighty nations ! Thanks...