Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner, who was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745: With an Appendix, Relating to the Ancient Family of the Munroes of FowlisBookselllers, 1794 - 287 páginas |
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... fure in being able at length , though af- ter fuch long delays , to put into your hands the memoirs with which I now prefent you . They contain many parti- culars , which would have been worthy of your attentive notice , had they ...
... fure in being able at length , though af- ter fuch long delays , to put into your hands the memoirs with which I now prefent you . They contain many parti- culars , which would have been worthy of your attentive notice , had they ...
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... fure ) , have prevailed , he would not have thought of a military life ; from which it is no won- der these ladies endeavoured to diffuade him , confidering the mournful experience they had of the dangers attending it , and the dear re ...
... fure ) , have prevailed , he would not have thought of a military life ; from which it is no won- der these ladies endeavoured to diffuade him , confidering the mournful experience they had of the dangers attending it , and the dear re ...
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... fure of fuccefs , that it feemed a point of friendship in one of the chief counsellors of that court , to diffuade a depen- dent of his from accepting fome employment under his Britannic Majefty , when propofed by his envoy there ...
... fure of fuccefs , that it feemed a point of friendship in one of the chief counsellors of that court , to diffuade a depen- dent of his from accepting fome employment under his Britannic Majefty , when propofed by his envoy there ...
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... . 51. A life any thing like this , could not , to be fure , be entered upon , in the midft . of fuch company as he had been accustomed to keep G 3 LIFE OF COLONEL GARDINER . 77 much to strengthen that firm faith in God, ...
... . 51. A life any thing like this , could not , to be fure , be entered upon , in the midft . of fuch company as he had been accustomed to keep G 3 LIFE OF COLONEL GARDINER . 77 much to strengthen that firm faith in God, ...
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... fure I fhall go to the man- " fions of eternal glory , & c . " And this is perfectly agreeable to the manner in which he ufed to speak to me on this head , which we have talked over frequently and largely . $ 72 . In this connection , I ...
... fure I fhall go to the man- " fions of eternal glory , & c . " And this is perfectly agreeable to the manner in which he ufed to speak to me on this head , which we have talked over frequently and largely . $ 72 . In this connection , I ...
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Página 88 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.
Página 206 - All that his faithful attendant saw further at this time was, that as his hat was falling off, he took it in his left hand and waved it as a signal to him to retreat, and added, what were the last words he ever heard him speak, 'Take care of yourself;' upon which the servant retired.
Página 188 - He comes from thickest films of vice To clear the mental ray, And on the eyeballs of the blind To pour celestial day.
Página 46 - ... in it ; and yet while this book was in his hand, an impression was made upon his mind (perhaps God only knows how) which drew after it a train of the most important and happy consequences.
Página 45 - I did not particularly inquire, whom he was to attend exactly at twelve. The company broke up about eleven ; and not judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other way. But it very accidentally happened, that he took up a religious book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau. It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian Soldier,...
Página 204 - Colonel at the beginning of the onset, which in the whole lasted but a few minutes, received a wound by a bullet in his left breast, which made him give a sudden spring in his saddle ; upon which his servant, who...
Página 47 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall on the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory: and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect...
Página 204 - As soon as the enemy came within gun-shot they made a furious fire; and it is said that the dragoons which constituted the left wing immediately fled. The Colonel at the beginning of the onset, which in the whole lasted but a few minutes, received a wound by a bullet in his left breast, which made him give a...
Página 203 - ... sheltered under a rick of barley, which happened to be in the field. About three in the morning he called his domestic servants to him , of which there were four in waiting.
Página 87 - Paradise; for he says that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body.