The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, Volumen18

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A. Sinclair, 1910

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Página 119 - A Gaelic and English Dictionary, containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish dialects of the Celtic, that could be collected from the voice, and old books, and MSS.," was published in London, in 2 vols.
Página 138 - Indeed, my good lord, my situation, at all times perilous, is become much more so, for I am no stranger to the language held in this great city : our darling's resignation is owing to lord Bute, who might have prevented it with the king, and he must answer for all the consequences ; which is, in other words, for the miscarriage of another's system, that he (Pitt) himself could not have prevented.
Página 125 - Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as her Majesty shall appoint, and the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew be conjoined in such manner as her Majesty shall think fit, and used in all Flags, Banners, Standards, and Ensigns, both at sea and land.
Página 133 - I have been at more than ordinary pains in public and private with the people to incline them to consider their ways, and particularly because very few of them can read, I have been endeavouring to shame and frighten them out of their unaccountable neglect of getting the Questions, wherein the principles of the Protestant religion are most accurately and summarily set down, and my pains to this purpose for some seasons past have not been altogether useless.
Página 138 - The ambassador was too remarkable not to be farther mentioned. This Graeme, then, was a notorious Jacobite, and had been engaged in the late rebellion. On a visit he made to Scotland, his native country, after this embassy, David Hume, the historian, said to him, "Colonel Graeme, I congratulate you on having exchanged the dangerous employment of making Kings, for the more lucrative province of making Queens.
Página 124 - Britain, travelling by seas, about the bearing of their flags, — for the avoiding of all such contentions hereafter we have, with the advice of our Council, ordered that from henceforth all our subjects of this isle and kingdom of Greater Britain, and the members thereof, shall bear in their maintop the Red Cross, commonly called St.
Página 126 - ... flown. At one time it seemed to be believed that the Royal Standard could be flown anywhere and by anybody. That, however, we now know is not the case. It was formally announced that the Royal Standard is the personal flag of the Sovereign, and cannot be flown without His Majesty's permission, and that is only granted when the King and Queen are present. Of course, a very different state of things applies with regard to the Union Jack. I think it may fairly be stated that the Union Jack should...

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