Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner ... With an appendix relating to the antient family of the Munro's of Fowlis ... The second edition

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James Buckland; James Waugh, 1748 - 272 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 77 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.
الصفحة 176 - He comes the prisoners to release, In Satan's bondage held; The gates of brass before him burst, The iron fetters yield.
الصفحة 193 - All that his faithful attendant saw further at this time was, that as his hat was falling off, he took it in his left hand and waved it as a signal to him to retreat, and added, what were the last words he ever heard him speak, 'Take care of yourself;' upon which the servant retired.
الصفحة 155 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and honour him. 'With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
الصفحة 33 - Sabbath) in some gay company, and had an unhappy assignation with a married woman, whom he was to attend exactly at twelve. The company broke up about eleven; and not judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other way.
الصفحة 190 - ... many circumstances did then concur to call him. The army was alarmed by break of day, by the noise of the rebels' approach, and the attack was made before sunrise, yet when it was light enough to discern what passed. As soon as the enemy came within...
الصفحة 190 - He continued all night under arms, wrapped up in his cloak, and generally sheltered under a rick of barley, which happened to be in the field. About three in the morning he called his domestic servants to him, of which there were four in waiting. He dismissed three of them with...
الصفحة 33 - ... other way. But it very accidentally happened, that he took up a religious book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau. It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian Soldier, or Heaven taken by Storm, and it was written by Mr Thomas Watson.
الصفحة 193 - ... others coming about him while he was thus dreadfully entangled with that cruel weapon, he was dragged off from his horse.
الصفحة 191 - Colonel and some other gallant officers did what they could to rally them once or twice, they at last. took a precipitate flight.

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