 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These brilliant sentences of the historian stirred up Sheriff Mark Napier, a writer of keen Jacobite... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...certainly not of violent temper nor obdurate heart, and has left a name which, wherever the English race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of anything but hatred. To come to more important matters : When Lord Maeaulay asserts that Claverhouse... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...torments of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...peculiar energy of hatred. To recapitulate all the crimes Ьу which this man and men like him, goaded the peasantry of the Western Lowlands into madness, would... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...torments of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. * See Nelson's Pnritan Dirincv, Life of Baxter, p. xxiii., Loud, 184C, for a full Recount of thls interesting... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...torments of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophot on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." Mr. Macaulay's mistake in calling Claverhouse James instead of John is viewed as a very serious one... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 40 pages
...torments of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These are hard words : let us now see how they are justified. The name which has been left by " the... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...fellow to have dodged the troops of Graham of Claverhouse so long ; that Graham who, says Macaulay, ' has left a name, which, wherever the Scottish race...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred.' The grave is at Lockerbie. ' Here lies the body of James Harkness, who died 7th December, 1723, aged... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Scotland - 1852 - 364 pages
...torments of hell, and to call each other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These are hard words : let us now see how they are justified. The name which has been left by " the... | |
 | P. Godwin - Biography - 1852 - 844 pages
...professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of vi->Icnt temper, and of obdurate heart," whose name. " wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred," was b. in 1850. His cnree'r in arms commenced as a soldier of fortune in France; he subsequently entered... | |
 | Parke Godwin - Biography - 1852 - 844 pages
...professional skill, but rapacious and promue, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart," whoso name, "wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred," was b. in 1650. His career in arms commenced as a soldier of fortune in France ; he subsequently entered... | |
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Tophet, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar... 
