 As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.  The Pocket Magazine - Seite 1781829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Mitchel - 1869 - 316 Seiten
...words : " As for Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinuished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." And this order was directed to the Commander of the Forces in Scotland. What was intended, therefore,... | |
 | 1869 - 608 Seiten
...words : '• As for Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." And this order was directed to the Commander of the Forces in Scotland. What was intended, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 680 Seiten
...thus : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | 1871 - 398 Seiten
...say whether or not he had any claim to mercy. In an order sent to Lord Stair, William stated that " it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves," the inhabitants of Glencoe, if they could be separated from the other clans. This argument, though... | |
 | John Reynell Morell - 1873 - 354 Seiten
...follows : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication...public justice to extirpate that set of thieves." Stair's orders were, " Let it be secret and sudden." Then a hundred and twenty Argyle soldiers, led... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 682 Seiten
...thus : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | 1874 - 772 Seiten
...Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the hiçhlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." In order to procure from the king such savage and wholly needless proclamations (for, be it observed,... | |
 | 1875 - 120 Seiten
...be extirpated ; they had been named in a proclamation made on the 16th January : — " As for Maclan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves " — words, no doubt, very shocking to our ears ; but when we consider the lawless character of the... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1876 - 694 Seiten
...by supposing that he signed it without perusing it. It runs thus : — "WILLIAM R.— As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. —WR •>" Dalrymple sent this order to Scotland to Sir Thomas Livingstone, the com mander-in-chief,... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 210 Seiten
...supposing that he signed it without perusing it. It runs thus : — "WILLIAM R. — As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. — WR i " k Lord Macaulay, though a thorough-going admirer of the "men of the Revolution," can scarcely... | |
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