 | John Lingard - 1855 - 312 pagina’s
...refreshed For myself I never found my mind in better temper than it was. I was as a man who had taken leave from the world, and was resolved to die in that...strong and vehement spirit leading me all along." — Id. 178. Au 1639.] PACIFICATION OF BERWICK. 217 under the lord Aboyne, son to the earl of Huntly,... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 500 pagina’s
...Our chronicler, in fact, was more than half crazy with excitement on the occasion. He says, " I was a man who had taken my leave from the world, and was...the conclusion of the peace, than my old security [ii hi» sense*] returned." for our own mutual preservation." Their short-lived dominion came to be... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 520 pagina’s
...Our chronicler, in fact, was more than half crazy with excitement on the occasion. Ho says, " I was a man who had taken my leave from the world, and was...meek, humble, yet strong and vehement spirit leading mo all along ; but I was no sooner on my way westward, after the conclusion of the peace, thuu my old... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 624 pagina’s
...Baillie, "I never found my mind in better temper than it was all that time since I came from home; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world,...was resolved to die in that service without return." Nor were the grosser comforts of the soldiers unattended to. At first, from the inexpertness of their... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1856 - 678 pagina’s
...singing psalms, some praying, some reading scripture, you would have been refreshed. I found the favor of God shining upon me ; and a sweet, meek, humble,...strong and vehement spirit, leading me all along." And it was precisely this spirit of th« puritan, meek before his God but violent towards men, which... | |
 | John Lingard - 1860 - 432 pagina’s
...world, am! was resolved lo tlie in th.il service without " return. I fuuud the fivour of God shinin;; upon me, and a sweet, " meek, humble, yet strong and vehement spirit leading me all along." Id. 178. of Glasgow, he consented to ratify the concessions made by his commissioner, nnd to intrust... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pagina’s
...refreshed. For myself, I never found my mind in better temper than it was. I was as a man who had taken leave from the world, and was resolved to die in that...strong and vehement spirit leading me all along." Leslie was joined hy the earl of Montrose, who had been posted at Kelso, and the first of their proceedings... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 562 pagina’s
...better temper than it was all that time frae I came from home, till my head was again homeward ; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world,...was resolved to die in that service without return." l The writer of this description was Robert Baillie, and he, in company with two other distinguished... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 580 pagina’s
...better temper than it was all that time frae I came from home, till my head was again homeward ; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world,...was resolved to die in that service without return." l The writer of this description was Robert Baillie, and he, in -company with two other distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pagina’s
...better temper than it was all the time frae I came from home, till my head was again homeward ; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world,...favour of God shining upon me ; and a sweet, meek, yet strong and vehement spirit leading me, all along. But, alas, I was no sooner on my way westward,... | |
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I came from home, till my head was again homeward; for I was as a man who had taken my leave from the world, and was resolved to die in that service without return. 
