Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... camp to Lord George Murray , Lieut . - General of the Prince's army , and assistant aide - de- camp to the Prince himself . Johnstone was no longer a raw youth . He was twenty- six , and had seen something of the world . His first ...
... camp to Lord George Murray , Lieut . - General of the Prince's army , and assistant aide - de- camp to the Prince himself . Johnstone was no longer a raw youth . He was twenty- six , and had seen something of the world . His first ...
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... camp as he worked himself . The march south was Charles ' doing . The chiefs were against it , and Johnstone , on military grounds , thought it a blunder of the first magnitude . Не saw clearly that so small a force could not conquer ...
... camp as he worked himself . The march south was Charles ' doing . The chiefs were against it , and Johnstone , on military grounds , thought it a blunder of the first magnitude . Не saw clearly that so small a force could not conquer ...
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... camp at Nairn by a night attack . The 15th was the Duke's birthday , and the Prince believed that the Eng- lish would be drunk and off their guard . The psychology may have been sound , but , as Johnstone says , " this march across the ...
... camp at Nairn by a night attack . The 15th was the Duke's birthday , and the Prince believed that the Eng- lish would be drunk and off their guard . The psychology may have been sound , but , as Johnstone says , " this march across the ...
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... camp to inform the Prince that his army was in being , and they eagerly awaited his arrival . Two days later the aide - de - camp returned with Charles ' answer : " Let every man seek his safety in the best way he can . " Abandoned by ...
... camp to inform the Prince that his army was in being , and they eagerly awaited his arrival . Two days later the aide - de - camp returned with Charles ' answer : " Let every man seek his safety in the best way he can . " Abandoned by ...
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... camp . Then the fortune of war went against him . The death of Montcalm was an irreparable loss for Johnstone , as for France , and the sub- sequent capitulation placed him in jeopardy . There was uncer- tainty about the treatment he ...
... camp . Then the fortune of war went against him . The death of Montcalm was an irreparable loss for Johnstone , as for France , and the sub- sequent capitulation placed him in jeopardy . There was uncer- tainty about the treatment he ...
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Page 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Page 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Page 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Page 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Page 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Page 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Page 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Page 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Page 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Page 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.