Transactions, Volume 21Gaelic Society of Inverness, 1899 - Celtic literature List of members in each vol. |
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agus Alex Alexander Angus Archibald Argyll army Arran Ashintullie Atholl Badenoch Barcaldine Baron Baron Reid bhiodh bhith brother Cameron Campbell of Barcaldine Campbell of Kilmune Castle Castlehill Celt Celtic chaidh Clan Cluny Colin Campbell Cuthbert dated daughter David Spalding Donald duine Duke Duncan Earl Earl of Atholl Edinburgh Ewen fairy Fergusson Fraser fuath fuath leam gach Glen Glenmoriston Glenorchy Glenshee Grant gu'm Highland Iain IajvjC Inshes Inverness Irish James John Campbell John Robertson Kilmune King Kingussie Kirkmichael Laird lands letter Lochiel Lord Lord Glenorchy MacAlpine Macbain Macdonald Mackay Mackenzie Mackintosh Macleod Macpherson Manx married merks Montrose Ossian Patrick Perth Pictish Picts Prince Regiment Robertson Scotland Scots Scottish Shaw Shiskine Skene Southend Spalding Stewart Straloch Strathardle uair vowel William
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Page 328 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey ? Ay, by my soul!
Page 40 - He kept his castle in the north, Hard by the thundering Spey; And a thousand vassals dwelt around, All of his kindred they, And not a man of all that clan Had ever ceased to pray For the Royal race they loved so well, Though exiled far away From the steadfast Scottish cavaliers, All of the olden time...
Page 420 - When confronted with Sir John Douglas of Kelhead (ancestor of the Marquess of Queensberry), before the Privy Council in St James's, the prisoner was asked, " Do you know this witness?" " Not I," answered Douglas ; " I once knew a person who bore the designation of Murray of Broughton — but that was a gentleman and a man of honour, and one that could hold up his head!
Page 271 - If this glass do break or fall, Farewell the luck of Edenhall...
Page 419 - Mrs Scott's curiosity was strongly excited one autumn by the regular appearance, at a certain hour every evening, of a sedan chair, to deposit a person carefully muffled up in a mantle, who was immediately ushered into her husband's private room, and commonly remained with him there until long after the usual bed-time of this orderly family. Mr Scott answered her repeated...
Page 334 - Airlie," and that of the Stirlingshire cavaliers for that of Menstrie,* doomed this magnificent pile to flames and ruin. The destruction of many a meaner habitation by the same unscrupulous and unsparing spirit of vengeance has been long forgotten, but the majestic remains of Castle Campbell still excite a sigh in those that view them, over the miseries of civil war.
Page 399 - I think, have done very well to return home, where you may be of more use than abroad. I shall say nothing here of what is passing in France, of which you will have been informed by Lord Semple ; and you may be well assured, that I shall neglect nothing that depends on me to induce the French to assist us, as it is reasonable to hope they will, if there be a general war. But if they ever undertake any thing in...
Page 416 - ... singular. When advancing to the charge with his company, he received five wounds, two of them from balls that pierced his body through and through. Stretched on the ground, with his head resting on his hand, he called out loudly to the Highlanders of his company, " My lads, I am not dead. By G—, I shall see if any of you does not do his duty.
Page 265 - Joppa, and others that have disappeared as completely as the "cities of the plain," furnished a stimulus to civilization in some parts of the colony. But in spite of these instances, it is true that most of the life of Maryland in the latter half of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century, was country life. And it was a country life that presented many analogies to the country life of Englishmen during the same period.
Page 414 - .As we are sensible of your clan's fidelity and integrity to us during our adventures in Scotland and England in the year 1745 and 1746, in recovering our just rights from the Elector of Hanover, by which you have sustained very great losses, both in your interest and person, I therefore promise when it shall please God to put it in any power to make a greatfull return sutable to your sufferings. CHARLES, PR " Diralagich in Glencamyier of ^ocharkag, 18th Sept, 1746.