...umanity of one of the Drummonds, who received him in his arms as he leaped from amongst the flames. As King James IV . ruled with more activity than m... ...s clan, the Drummond by whose assistance David Murray had escaped, fled to Ireland, until, by means of the person whose life he had saved, he was perm... ...he romance, she roamed a raving maniac, and for some time secreted herself from all living society. Some re- maining instinctive feeling brought her a... ...me re- maining instinctive feeling brought her at length to steal a glance from a distance at the maidens while they milked the cows, which being obse... ...t was but a sterile glen, sur- rounded with rude crags, and traversed by a northern tor- rent. This was not the worst. The fires had been quenched upo... ... Scot- land to the King’s allegiance. This plan was chiefly adopted by the northern nobility, who had resisted with great obstinacy the adoption of th... ...ent, he contrived at once to gratify and to elude the eager desires of the Presbyterians, by qualifying the obli- gation to reform the Church of Engla... ... overhung by fragments of huge rock. Elsewhere, the hill, which formed the northern side of this beautiful sheet of water, arose in steep, but less pr... ...o—that is, young Colkitto, or Alaster M’Donald, is come over the Kyle from Ireland, with a body of the Earl of Antrim’s people, and that they had got ...

... sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Is lands. Ire... ...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ... part of his own do minions, while he carried fire and slaughter into the northern part; torturing, plundering, killing, and inflicting every possibl... ... to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refuge; num bers of the foreign soldiers,... ...the Covenanters; and Sharp, a traitor who had once been the friend of the Presbyterians and be trayed them, was made Archbishop of St. Andrew’s, to ... ...ad turned Catholic himself, and pretended that he knew of a plot among the Presbyterians against the King’s life. This was very pleasant to the Duke o...

...of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, -- br...

...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ...dow thrown upwards from the dead deeps of the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portra... ...of sharpness, he is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from Norseland; Et... ... in the last state of rudeness and destitution; little better perhaps than Ireland at this day. Hungry fierce barons, not so much as able to form any ... ...ain with. You must get out of that man’s way, or put him out of yours! The Presbyterians, in their de- spair, were still for believing Charles, though... ...n in order to get it. Let us see a little how this was. England, Scotland, Ireland, all lying now subdued at the feet of the Puritan Parliament, the p...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ... of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their... ...d indeed he had served three years as clerk to an attorney in the north of Ireland, when, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, cam... ...ed more than two years. My husband, therefore, was resolved to set out for Ireland; against which I remonstrated very earnestly, and insisted on a pro... ... money, arising, he said, from his having too long neglected his estate in Ireland. And this, he said, which he could not bear to discover to me, was ... ... said the puppet show man, “I don’t care what religion comes; provided the Presbyterians are not uppermost; for they are enemies to puppet shows.” “... ...ones hath privately added a third. Upon this income he lives in one of the northern counties, about 200 miles distant from Lon don, and lays up £200 ...

... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ...e, who was named as Mr. Sidney, the son of the Lord 36 Yo n g e Deputy of Ireland. A couple of gentlemen who would in these times have been termed at... ... from one to another of the many scattered settlements of Huguenots in the northern part of France, who, being left pastorless, welcomed visits from t... ...Islands, and thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the northern and eastern coasts of France; and often indulged in descents on th... ...g to the Scottish General Assembly, excepting that the perse- cuted French Presbyterians met in a different place every year. Delegated pastors there ... ...lace every year. Delegated pastors there gathered from every quarter. From Northern France came men used to live in constant hazard of their lives; fr...

........................................................ 20 LETTER VI.—ON THE PRESBYTERIANS ................................................................ ...d with success in November, 1718. A few months later he was again banished from Paris, and finished the Henriade in his retirement, as well as another... ...n December, 1721, Voltaire visited Lord Bolingbroke, who was then an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary ... ..., at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland with Madame de Rupelmo... ... way of eminence. No person can possess an employment either in England or Ireland unless he be ranked among the faithful, that is, professes himself ... ...reason I do not trouble myself about them. 23 V oltaire LETTER VI.—ON THE PRESBYTERIANS T HE CHURCH OF ENGLAND is confined almost to the kingdom when... ...f the haughty Diogenes trampling under foot the pride of Plato. The Scotch Presbyterians are not very un- like that proud though tattered reasoner. Di... ... treasures of the West Indies; and a third into the Baltic, to prevent the Northern Powers from coming to an engagement. At the time when Louis XIV. m... ...ntiary. Dr. Swift is Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin, and is more revered in Ireland than the Primate himself. The religion which Mr. Pope professes exc...

...R V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS............................................................................................................ 23 LETTER VII.?ON THE SOCINIANS, OR ARIANS, OR ANTITRINITARIANS ..........................................