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He doubted not but they had been taken for the use of Montrose's cavalry; and it was not for the loss of his substance that he grieved, and that his spirit was wroth, but because it was taken to assist the enemies of his country, and the persecutors of the truth; for than John Brydone, humble as he was, there was not a more dauntless or a more determined supporter of the Covenant in all Scotland.
John Brydone was not a man of tears, but, as he joined in the psalm, they rolled down his cheeks, for his heart felt, while his tongue uttered praise, that a day of deliverance for the people of Scotland was at hand. The psalm being concluded, each preacher offered up a short but earnest prayer; and each man, grasping his weapon, was ready to lay down his life for his religion and his liberty.
Dark thoughts, too, had taken possession of her father's mind, and he frequently sank into melancholy; for the thought haunted him that his adopted son, on being driven from his house, had laid violent hands upon his own life; and this idea embittered every day of his existence. More than ten years had passed since Philip had left the house of John Brydone.
Brydone supposes the electric current to have been attracted by the metallic wire which maintained the shape of her bonnet. Hence he proposes that either these wires be abandoned or in times of danger a metallic chain be attached to the bonnet, by which the charge might pass to the earth.
"There are no such names for my tongue to utter! none! none to drop their love as morning dew upon the solitary soul o' Andrew Duncan!" "Are they murdered?" exclaimed Mowbray, suddenly, in a voice of agony. "Murdered!" said the preacher, with increased bewilderment. "What do you mean? or wha' do you mean?" "Tell me," cried Mowbray, eagerly; "are not you the husband of Mary Brydone?"
"They may try that who dare!" returned the soldier, who was the most powerful man of the party; "but what I've said I'll stand to." "You shall answer for this to-morrow," said the sergeant, sullenly, who feared to provoke a quarrel with the trooper. "I will answer it," replied the other. John Brydone, his son Daniel, and the Rev. Mr.
He commenced his musical career at Palermo in 1770, at the age of twenty, and when he went to England in 1778 expectations were raised to the highest pitch by the accounts given of him by Brydone in his "Tour through Sicily and Malta."
Our army was stricken with confusion I never beheld them again! I grasped the hand of the youth I gazed in his face as though my soul would have leaped from my eyelids. 'Do not deceive me! I cried; and he drew from his bosom the ring and the bracelets of my Elizabeth!" Here the old knight paused and wept, and tears ran down the cheeks of John Brydone, and the cheeks of his children.
"At least, sir," said Elspeth Brydone, "take share of what our spence and our garners afford. Your horses are tired your folk want refreshment." "Not a whit not a whit," answered the honest Englishman; "it shall never be said we disturbed by carousal the widow of a brave soldier, while she was mourning for her husband. Comrades, face about.
Now, it was on a winter night in the year 1677, a party of troopers were passing near the house of old John Brydone, and he was known to them not only as being one who was a defender of the Covenant, but also as one who harboured the preachers, and whose house was regarded as a conventicle. "Let us rouse the old psalm-singing heretic who lives here from his knees," said one of the troopers.
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