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... cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...nds; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Ba... ...me much of his work and the people he worked among, the hiding priests and Jacobites, the Dis- arming Act, the dress, and many other curiosities of th... ...what of the Covenanter, and were little in their place among wild Highland Jacobites. What with the brandy and the venison, a strange heavi- ness had ...

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... be able to remove mountains," he summoned all the Christians, Nestorians, and Jacobites, and propounded to them in ten days to remove a certain mount...

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...thy from the world. It may be added, that the greater part of the banished Jacobites, and those of high rank and consequence, were not much within rea... ...of a far more general scheme, was resumed and again put into motion by the Jacobites of En- gland, whose force had never been broken, as they had pru-... ...antly attempted by a few Highland chiefs. It is probable, indeed, that the Jacobites of the day were incapable of considering that the very small scal... ... these ill-digested and desperate conspiracies were agitated among the few Jacobites who still adhered with more obstinacy to their purpose, there is ... ..., doubtless, that their claims may be revived in more favourable times for Jacobites and for popery; and folks who in no way partake of their fantasti... ... made Whigs o’. And so he became a T ory, as they ca’ it, which we now ca’ Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some ... ...uation the late scene had thrown considerable light—one of those fanatical Jacobites, doubt- less, whose arms, not twenty years since, had shaken the ... ... desper- ate. He was indeed perfectly different from the sort of zeal- ous Jacobites whom it had been my luck hitherto to meet with. Old ladies of fam... ...ring such soliloquies in his solitary chamber. I observed that, like other Jacobites, in his inveteracy against the memory of King William, he had ado...

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...ing that as this was the date of a feeble Spanish attempt on behalf of the Jacobites in Scotland, Comte de Bourke may not have ventured by the direct ... ...tist, recollecting, too, that peace with George I. might mean war with the Jacobites. ‘I know not whether a young kinsman of my Lord’s has ever been p... ...f the Mediterranean ports, as the English Government were so suspicious of Jacobites that he did not venture on taking the direct route by sea, but me... ...ould give you a helping hand if you came fresh from colloguing with French Jacobites, though my father and all the rest of us at the Lynn aye told him...

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... long with old-fashioned politics, and Whig and T ory, and Hanoverians and Jacobites, The truth is, I cannot promise them that this story shall be int... ...ain sign, which, it seems, passed at that time current among the initiated Jacobites. The moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the shibboleth, with the app... ...averley ried on with little opposition, as the Lowland gentry were chiefly Jacobites, and disarmed. This forced many of the in- habitants into contrac... ...e coast of Suffolk, or my news from France has deceived me.’ [The sanguine Jacobites, during the eventful years 1745-6, kept up the spirits of their p... ...elville. ‘Observe now: this young man, descended of a family of hereditary Jacobites, his uncle the leader of the T ory interest in the county of —, h... ...on had nearly formed a most un- natural league with their old enemies, the Jacobites, to oppose that important national measure. Since that time their... ...he mere suspicion of disaffection, or an inclination to join the insurgent Jacobites, might infer crimi- nality indeed, but certainly not dishonour. B... ...Stuart; and as a well-founded disbelief in the co-operation of the English Jacobites kept many Scottish men of rank from his standard, and diminished ... ...ers were in possession of Edinburgh; and it was in presence of some of the Jacobites that he prayed for Prince Charles Edward in the terms quoted in t...

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...sed doors, as it were; it reminded me a good deal of the dreams of the old Jacobites, when they whispered their messages to the king across the water....

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... to keep the secret; said that the ladies of the house were enthusi- astic Jacobites, as was well known; and confessed that the picture was that of th... ...nd swiftly to do that about which others were conspiring, and thousands of Jacobites all over the country clumsily caballing; alone to effect that whi... ...the Prince’s cause; there were scores of correspondents with St. Germains; Jacobites known and secret; great in station and humble; about the Court an...

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...instantly informed. It was not then altogether too late in the day for a descent of the Jacobites; and may be Prince Charlie, whom I knew my uncle to ... ...a- ther of the woman I hoped to call my wife. ‘These were living men,’ said I, ‘perhaps Jacobites, per- haps the French, perhaps pirates, perhaps adve...

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...ntlemen who took part in this divan were Catholics, and all of them stanch Jacobites, whose hopes were at present at the highest pitch, as an invasion...

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...lace, in such dismal circumstances, I was to read for the first time these idle, lying words of a Whig pamphleteer declaiming against indulgency to Ja...

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... can hardly stand! Here is my shawl, sit down upon it here in the corner, and I will beat your eggs. See, I have brought a fork too; I should have bee...

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...ters as regards public freedom. The T ories, as contradistinguished to the Jacobites, knowing that without their aid, the Revolution could not have be...

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...f, and made his last appearance. Being an old man by that time, he and the Jacobites—as his friends were called—put forward his son, Charles Edward ,...

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...r it arose from the sympathy between their minds; for they were both truly Jacobites in principle; they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of...

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...othing but regard to right made him and the rest of the popish party to be Jacobites.”—”I believe him to be as much a Protestant as I believe he hath ...

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...nce also made much stir at the Court of England, and among the priests and Jacobites of that country. For very different reasons, not only the Catholi...

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...arm. The Latin word for James is Jacobus, and, therefore, they were called Jacobites. All Roman Catholics were, of course, Jacobites; and there were o... ...t his weak chest so much that he died in a few days, in the year 1702. The Jacobites were very glad to be rid of him, and used to drink the health of ... ...ained the young brother whom she had disowned, and whom the French and the Jacobites called King James III. If he would have joined the English Church... ... to come to Westminster. This made many Scotsmen so angry that they became Jacobites; but as every body knew that the queen was a gentle, well-meaning... ...t was too late, and George I. had thoroughly settled into his kingdom, the Jacobites in the North of En- gland and in Scotland began to make a stir, a... ...3 Charlotte M. Yonge Stuart over to try to gain the kingdom. The Jacobites used to call him James III., but the Whigs called him the Pretend... ...me to any good. T wo battles were fought between the king’s troops and the Jacobites— one in England and the other in Scotland—on the very same day. T... ... ran— Awa, man. The English one was at Preston, and in it the Jacobites were all defeated and made prisoners; so that when their friend t... ...d had two sons, whom he named Charles Edward and Henry. This rising of the Jacobites took place in the year 1715, and is, therefore, generally called ...

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...tters on England affirm Father Bourdaloue to have been a mere babbler. The Jacobites consider Mary Queen of Scots as a pious heroine, but those of an ...

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...!” he exclaimed; “there’s life for honest folk in this bad world yet!” The Jacobites at this period, with what propriety I know not, used, it must be ... ...rd, at their head, affected to separate their principles from those of the Jacobites, and, on 263 Sir Walter Scott that account, obtained the denomin... ... and a retaliation of the confisca- tion which had been inflicted upon the Jacobites during that of King William. But the most alarmed at the change o...

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... the Elliots; I was present when a skipper, ply- ing from Dundee, smuggled Jacobites to France after the ’15; I was in a West India merchant’s office,...

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...were not Lamanites were Nephites; nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites, Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites. J... ...n Christ; and among them there were those who were called by the Lamanites—Jacobites, and Josephites, and Zoramites; 4 Nephi 1:37 37 Therefore the tr... ...e the three disciples of Jesus who should tarry) were called Nephites, and Jacobites, and Josephites, and Zoramites. 4 Nephi 1:38 38 And it came to p... ...an to be a war between the Nephites, who consisted of the Nephites and the Jacobites and the Josephites and the Zoramites; and this war was between th...

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... to keep the secret; said that the ladies of the house were enthusi- astic Jacobites, as was well known; and confessed that the 380 Henry Esmond pict... ...nd swiftly to do that about which others were conspiring, and thousands of Jacobites all over the country clumsily caballing; alone to effect that whi... ...the Prince’s cause; there were scores of correspondents with St. Germains; Jacobites known and secret; great in station and humble; about the Court an...

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...united: they formed a rope of sand. There was the distraction of religion (Jacobites, Nestorians, &c.); there was the distrac- tion of races—slaves an...

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...m France, without necessity.” The truth was Lord Bolingbroke, who left the Jacobites, first used it; therefore, it was to be condemned. He should have...

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...ad their castle burned by the Covenant- ers, and since that they have been Jacobites, and one barely escaped being beheaded at Carlisle! I want to hea...