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Clarence and his friend Coles longed to sail together again, but Coles was shelved; and when Clarence's appointment came at last, it was to the brig Clotho, Commander Brydone, going out in the Mediterranean Fleet, under Sir Edward Codrington.
Among these was one, Alexander Hume, a shoemaker, a strong stalwart man, bold and energetic in his character, and extremely enthusiastic in the cause of the king. He was deemed of considerable importance by Brydone, being held the second best man of the hundred citizens who are said to have joined his standard. When he came among his companions he was uniformly cheered.
Go there is happiness in store for you; but my portion is with the dispersed and the persecuted." And he turned and left them. Lieutenant Mowbray was disgusted with the cold-blooded butchery of the service in which he was engaged; and, a few days after the escape of John Brydone and his son, he threw up his commission, and proceeded to Dumfriesshire.
'There wasn't a fault to be found with him in the Calypso. What possessed Winslow to let him sail with Brydone? But the service is going, etc. etc., he ran on forgetting that it was he himself who had been unwilling, perhaps rightly, to press the Duke of Clarence for an appointment to a crack frigate for his namesake.
Gone are the days of Keppel Craven and Swinburne, of Eustace and Brydone and Hoare! You will come across sporadic Germans immersed in Hohenstaufen records, or searching after Roman antiquities, butterflies, minerals, or landscapes to paint you will meet them in the most unexpected places; but never an Englishman.
It rises from one solid stem to a remarkable height before it branches. At an elevation of two feet from the earth its circumference was found by Brydone to be seventy-six feet. These trees are reputed to have flourished for much more than a thousand years.
When recruits were required by King James the Fourth for the invasion of the English territory, which produced the most lamentable of all our defeats, it is well known that great exertions were used in the cause by the town-clerk of Selkirk, whose name was William Brydone, for which King James the Fifth afterwards conferred on him the honour of knighthood.
Battle of Philiphaugh Border Ballad. "Ye speak skilfully," said Sir David, and he gave orders as John Brydone had advised. The Marquis of Montrose had been disappointed in reinforcements from his sovereign.
Faustina died in 1793, at the age of ninety-two, and Hasse not long after, at the age of ninety-four. The Cardinal and the Daughter of the Cook. The Young Prima Donna's Début in Lucca. Dr. Barney's Description of Gabrielli. Her Caprices, Extravagances, and Meeting with Metastasio. Her Adventures in Vienna. Brydone on Gabrielli. Episodes of her Career in Sicily and Parma.
Claverhouse, and a party of his troops, were then in the neighbourhood of Traquair; and before that man, who knew not what mercy was, John Brydone, and his son, and the preacher were brought. It was on the afternoon of the day following that on which they had been made prisoners, that Claverhouse ordered them to be brought forth.
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