| James Macpherson - 1775 - 658 pagina’s
...their allegiance. Your army, though difbanded, is not difperfed. Give me your commiifion. I will gather ten thoufand of your troops. I will carry your ftandard...and drive before you the Dutch and their Prince." The King replied, " that he believed it might be done ; but that it would raife a civil war ; and he... | |
| William Russell - 1839 - 620 pagina’s
...Give me your commission, and I will collect ten thousand of your troops : I will carry your standard at their head through England, and drive before you...that he believed it might be done, but that it would occasion a civil war ; and he would not do so much mischief to a people who would soon return to their... | |
| Europe - 1846 - 468 pagina’s
...Majesty to give him his commission, and he would carry his standard through England, and drive before him the Dutch and their Prince. James replied, that he believed it might be done, but that it would occasion a civil war, and he would not do so much mischief to a people who would soon return to their... | |
| Grace Webster - 1853 - 428 pagina’s
...dispersed. Give me your commission ; I will gather ten thousand of your troops. I will carry your standard at their head through England, and drive before you the Dutch and their Prince." It is not a matter of surprise that a plan was laid to assassinate this resolute hero ; and it is to... | |
| George Buchanan - 1856 - 686 pagina’s
...have positively exclaimed, ' I will gather ten thousand of your troops — I will carry your standard at their head, through England, and drive before you the Dutch and their prince." A promise, if ever made, which he might have found some difficulty in performing.* But the spirit of... | |
| William Deverell - 1887 - 350 pagina’s
...give me your commission, and I will collect ten thousand of your troops, I will carry your standard at their head through England, and drive before you the Dutch and their Prince." It is true that the King acknowledged the soundness and feasibility of Dundee's manly counsel, but... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1901 - 366 pagina’s
...dispersed. Give me your commission and I will gather ten thousand of your troops. I will carry your standard at their head through England and drive before you the Dutch and their Prince." In reply the King said he believed this might be done but that it would raise a civil war, and he would... | |
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