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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE HUMILIATION OF THE LAND. "Stands Scotland where it did? Alas, poor country, Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing, But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile, Where sighs and groans, and shrieks that rend the air Are made, not mark'd...."--Macbeth. "Right reverend and honourable. This day about two of the clock in the afternoon, his Majesty was brought out of the window of the banqueting house at Whitehall, near which a stage was set by, and his head struck off with an axe; wherewith we hold it our duty to acquaint you; and so we being in haste shall say no more at this time, but that we remain your affectionate friends to serve. Lothian J. Chieslie." By this laconic message to the General Assembly were the people of Scotland, on Sunday, the 4th of February 1649, made aware of the murder of their King. Just sixty-three years before, on a grey February day, the herald of the tragedy of Fotheringhay had brought to Edinburgh news of the execution of the grandmother of Charles I. And far away in Brussels, the stunning intelligence was received, and, being suddenly brought to Montrose, the faithful champion had fallen down in his anguish, stiff and cold, as one dead. With returning consciousness he exclaimed, "I swear before God, angels, and man, that I will dedicate the remainder of my life to avenging the death of the royal martyr, and re-establishing his son upon his father's throne." Shut up in his own chamber for two days, till he had recovered from the shock, the poet warrior wrote= "Great, Good and Just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain, As it would deluge once again;1 I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150091476
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150091479
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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