Memoirs, tr. by C. Winchester, 第 1 巻 |
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100 ページ - Sire, among the inhabitants of this town, and your majesty's troops, I could not find so much as one executioner; they are honest citizens and brave soldiers. We jointly, therefore, beseech your majesty to command our arms and lives in things that are practicable.
42 ページ - He had quitted Preston in the evening with his mistress and my drummer ; and having marched all night, he arrived next morning at Manchester, which is about twenty miles distant from Preston, and immediately began to beat up for recruits for 'the yellow-haired laddie.
85 ページ - Ante, xix., p. 303. [" Cope had, according to the English custom, offered bets, to the amount of ten thousand guineas, in the different coffeehouses in London, that the first general sent to command an army against us in Scotland, would be beaten as he had been ; and by the defeat of General Hawley he gained a considerable sum of money, and recovered his honour to a certain degree.
56 ページ - The Duke of Cumberland's footman declared, that his master would have been killed, if the pistol with which a Highlander took aim at his head, had not missed fire. The Prince had the politeness to send him back to his master.
106 ページ - would you have me sit down to victuals when my enemy is so near me." — The Young Chevalier, p. 6 — " Exhausted with hunger," says Johnstone, " and worn out with the excessive fatigue of the three last nights, as soon as we reached Culloden, I turned off as fast as I could to Inverness, where, eager to recruit my strength by a little sleep, I tore off my clothes, half asleep all the while ; but when I had already one leg in the bed, and was on the point of stretching myself between the sheets,...
65 ページ - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
114 ページ - ... very narrow, full of tremendously high precipices, where there are several passes which a hundred men could defend against ten thousand, by merely rolling down rocks from the summit of the mountains. Lord George Murray immediately despatched people to guard the passes, and at the same time sent off an aide-de-camp to inform the Prince that a great part of his army was assembled at Ruthven ; that the Highlanders were full of animation and ardour, and eager to be led against the enemy ; that the...
59 ページ - Britain, having declared openly in his favour by attaching their fortunes to his as the Scots had done.
27 ページ - if I killed them ; but I brought fourteen soldiers to the ground with my sword.' Another Highlander brought ten soldiers to the Prince, whom he had made prisoners, driving them before him like a flock of sheep. This Highlander, from a rashness without example, having pursued a party to some distance from the field of battle, along the road between the two enclosures, struck down the hindermost with a blow of his sword, calling at the same time, ' Down with your arms ! ' The soldiers, terror-struck,...
30 ページ - It rises from a desire of distinguishing ourselves. It is pride that renders us polite : we are flattered with being taken notice of for...