Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volym 1Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
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... command of the man that has enticed me , I would have done and committed sundry high murders more . For , truly , since I was first his majesty's man , * I could never be at an ease by my Lord of Argyle's falsity and inventions . For he ...
... command of the man that has enticed me , I would have done and committed sundry high murders more . For , truly , since I was first his majesty's man , * I could never be at an ease by my Lord of Argyle's falsity and inventions . For he ...
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... command a moment's credit , it would immediately be contradicted by dates , since , in the succinct words of old Spalding's Chronicle , 66 Gilderoy , with five other limmers , were taken , and all hanged to the death , " on the 29th of ...
... command a moment's credit , it would immediately be contradicted by dates , since , in the succinct words of old Spalding's Chronicle , 66 Gilderoy , with five other limmers , were taken , and all hanged to the death , " on the 29th of ...
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... command over her estate . To this end it was essential that the possession of her person should be sanctified by the rites of matrimony - the more solemnly performed the better . Warrants were issued against the ma- rauders , and a body ...
... command over her estate . To this end it was essential that the possession of her person should be sanctified by the rites of matrimony - the more solemnly performed the better . Warrants were issued against the ma- rauders , and a body ...
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... vessels . They were in these defying terms : " You are hereby ordered not to suffer , so far as you are able , the said company's ship under your command to be insulted during the voyage by the ships 138 THE DARIEN EXPEDITION.
... vessels . They were in these defying terms : " You are hereby ordered not to suffer , so far as you are able , the said company's ship under your command to be insulted during the voyage by the ships 138 THE DARIEN EXPEDITION.
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John Hill Burton. command to be insulted during the voyage by the ships of war of any nation , nor to search your said ship , nor suffer your men to be pressed on any pre- tence whatsoever . But by force of arms , if need be , you are to ...
John Hill Burton. command to be insulted during the voyage by the ships of war of any nation , nor to search your said ship , nor suffer your men to be pressed on any pre- tence whatsoever . But by force of arms , if need be , you are to ...
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Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volym 1 John Hill Burton Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1852 |
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Sida 304 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Sida 56 - What need of books ? Burn all the statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our kind ; And worse, against ourselves. We have a passion — make a law, Too false to guide us or control ! And for the law itself we fight In bitterness of soul. And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose Distinctions that are plain and few : These find I graven on my heart : That tells me what to do.
Sida 244 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Sida 116 - Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world shall need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work.
Sida 308 - ... he could take away a man's life, though in truth he could do no such thing, yet this were a just law made by the state ; that whosoever should turn his hat thrice and cry buz, with an intention to take away a man's life, shall be put to death.
Sida 301 - His nailes upon all his fingers were riven and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottish a Turkas, which in England wee call a payre of pincers, and under everie nayle there was thrust in two needels over even up to the heads...
Sida 140 - The troops of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. They were confounded because they had hoped; They came thither, and were ashamed.
Sida 37 - Gilderoy. Wae worth the loun that made the laws, To hang a man for gear, To 'reave of life for ox or ass, For sheep, or horse, or mare : Had not their laws been made sae strick, I neir had lost my joy, Wi' sorrow neir had wat my cheek, . For my dear Gilderoy.
Sida 96 - If you had been successful in that rebellion, you might have been giving the law where you have now received the judgment of it; we, who are this day your judges, might have been tried before one of your mock courts of judicature; and then you might have been satiated with the blood of any name or clan to which you had an aversion.
Sida 214 - When mass was sung, and bells was rung, And all men bound for bed, Then good Lord John and Rothiemay In one chamber was laid.