Kilmarnock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy ; but the Duke, who has not so much of Caesar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost severity. It was lately proposed in the city to present him with the freedom of some company... Bentley's Miscellany - Strana 494úprava: - 1857Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Horace Walpole - 1833 - Počet stránok 436
...sixth Duke of Hamilton ; died in 1758. — D. VoL. I.— 36 King's hand, and ask Lord Kilmamock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy ; but the...aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers !" The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - Počet stránok 832
...The King is much inclined to some mercy; but the Duke [Cumberland,] who has not so much of a Cœsar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost...aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers !" * •**«•••• "Lord Cromarty is reprieved; the Prince asked his life, and his wife made... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1833 - Počet stránok 450
...Kilmarnock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy; but the Duke, who has not so much of Csesar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost...aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers !" The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - Počet stránok 618
...Kilmarnock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy; but the Duke, who has not so much of Caisar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost...aldermen said aloud, "Then let it be of the Butchers!"" The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When he... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - Počet stránok 522
...victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost severity. It was lately proposed in the city to pre-. sent him with the freedom of some company ; one of the...aldermen said aloud,. " Then let it be of the Butchers!"' The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When he... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - Počet stránok 592
...Hamilton,* who has never been at court, designs to kiss the King's hand, and ask Lord Kilmarnock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy ; but the...aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers /"b The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - Počet stránok 596
...Kilmarnock's life. The King is much inclined to some mercy ; but the Duke, who has not so much of Cassar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost...aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers /"b The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other. When... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1844 - Počet stránok 476
...sooner than any other with cruelty, confirmed this title to the hero of Culloden."— Pict. Hist. Eng. " It was lately proposed in the city to present him...aldermen said aloud, ' then let it be of the Butchers.' " — Horace Walpole. t " In many places the dispersed claus were hunted down like wild beasts —... | |
| Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - Počet stránok 416
...levity, but with all the composure of a * " The king," says Horace Walpole in one of his letters, " is much inclined to some mercy ; but the duke, who...aldermen said aloud, ' Then let it be of the butchers.' " Was it to this civic Ion-mot that his Royal Highness was indebted for the surname which history has... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - Počet stránok 516
...to some mercy ; but the duke. who has not so much of Csesar after a victory as in gaining it, isjor the utmost severity. It was lately proposed in the...aldermen said aloud, ' Then let it be of the Butchers.' "' — Letter to Mann. without arms, without money, without credit ; and if the king's enemies are... | |
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