 | 1869 - 608 pages
...words : '• As for Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." And this order was directed to the Commander of the Forces in Scotland. What was intended, therefore,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 954 pages
...instructions of the 11th were repeated, with verbal alterations, and with this addition : "As for Maclan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...the vindication of public justice to extirpate that sect of thieves." We may assume that William signed this order without knowing that Maclan had irregularly... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 1038 pages
...this addition : "As for Maclau of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from tho rest of the Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that sect of thieves." We may assume that William signed this order without knowing that Hacían had irregularly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 680 pages
...thus : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | 1871 - 398 pages
...say whether or not he had any claim to mercy. In an order sent to Lord Stair, William stated that " it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves," the inhabitants of Glencoe, if they could be separated from the other clans. This argument, though used... | |
 | John Reynell Morell - 1873 - 354 pages
...follows : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication...public justice to extirpate that set of thieves." Stair's orders were, " Let it be secret and sudden." Then a hundred and twenty Argyle soldiers, led... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 682 pages
...thus : " As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." These words naturally bear a sense perfectly innocent, and would, but for the horrible event which... | |
 | 1874 - 772 pages
...Maclan of Glencoe, and that tribe, if they can well be distinguished from the rest of the hiçhlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves." In order to procure from the king such savage and wholly needless proclamations (for, be it observed,... | |
 | 1875 - 120 pages
...be extirpated ; they had been named in a proclamation made on the 16th January : — " As for Maclan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished...of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves " — words, no doubt, very shocking to our ears ; but when we consider the lawless character of the... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1876 - 694 pages
...seek to palliate by supposing that he signed it without perusing it. It runs thus : — "WILLIAM R.— As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they...public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. —WR •>" Dalrymple sent this order to Scotland to Sir Thomas Livingstone, the com mander-in-chief,... | |
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As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves. 
