 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...other by the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These brilliant sentences of the historian stirred up Sheriff Mark Napier, a writer of keen Jacobite... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...certainly not of violent temper nor obdurate heart, and has left a name which, wherever the English race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of anything but hatred. To come to more important matters : When Lord Maeaulay asserts that Claverhouse... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished men in Ьу which this man and men like him, goaded the peasantry of the Western Lowlands into madness, would... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred. * See Nelson's Puritan Dinner, Life of Baxter, p. xxiii., Loud, 1846, for a full Recount of this interesting... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophot on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." Mr. Macaulay's mistake in calling Claverhouse James instead of John is viewed as a very serious one... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1849 - 40 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred." These are hard words : let us now see how they are justified. The name which has been left by " the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls.* The chief of this Tophet on earth , a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and...temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, whereever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...the names of devils and damned souls. The chief of this Tophet on earth, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of oMurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe,... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...fellow to have dodged the troops of Graham of Claverhouse so long ; that Graham who, says Macaulay, ' has left a name, which, wherever the Scottish race...globe, is mentioned with a peculiar energy of hatred.' The grave is at Lockerbie. ' Here lies the body of James Harkness, who died 7th December, 1723, aged... | |
 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - Derry (N.H. : Town) - 1851 - 464 pages
...distinguished was James Graham, of Claverhouse, — " a soldier," says Macaulay, " of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper, and of obdurate heart, who has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned... | |
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Tophet, a soldier of distinguished courage and professional skill, but rapacious and profane, of violent temper and of obdurate heart, has left a name which, wherever the Scottish race is settled on the face of the globe, is mentioned with a peculiar... 
