The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 2 |
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Popular passages
Page 71 - I suffer this day by men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind. For this cause I was sent, that I should suffer this fire for Christ's sake. Consider and behold my visage, ye shall not see me change my colour. This grim fire I fear not ; and so I pray you...
Page 361 - By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation...
Page 67 - Do what you can, out of hand, and without long tarrying, to beat down and overthrow the castle, sack Holyrood house, and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye conveniently can ; sack Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword, without exception, when any resistance shall be made against you...
Page 381 - Oh, then it were a seemly thing, While all is still and calm, The praise of God to play and sing With cornet and with shalm...
Page 67 - ... to spoil and turn upside down the cardinal's town of St Andrews, as the upper stone may be the nether, and not one stick stand by another, sparing no creature alive within the same, specially such as either in friendship or blood be allied to the cardinal.
Page 91 - And therewith every man put on his steel bonnet. There was heard nothing of the queen's part but ' My joys, my hearts, what ails you? Me means no evil to you nor to your preachers. The bishops shall do you no wrong.
Page 381 - Light, which shaid away The darkness from the light, And set a ruler o'er the day, Another o'er the night ; Thy glory, when the day forth flies, More vively does appear, Than at midday unto our eyes The shining sun is clear.
Page 162 - Croc, might be acquainted with. The denunciation was to this purport, " Sentence is pronounced in Scotland against that murderer, the king of France, and God's vengeance shall never depart from him nor his house ; but his name shall remain an execration to posterity ; and none that shall come of his loins shall enjoy that kingdom in peace and quietness, unless repentance prevent God's judgment.
Page 173 - Ecclesiastical (in the words of the Second Book of Discipline) flows from God and the Mediator, Jesus Christ, and is spiritual, not having a temporal head on earth but only Christ, the only spiritual King and Governor of his Kirk.
Page 128 - And now, my Lords," he concluded, " to put an end to all, I hear of the Queen's marriage — dukes, brethren to emperors and kings, strive all for the best gain. But this, my Lords, will I say, note the day, and bear witness hereafter.