 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1798 - 328 pages
...Archbifhop Sharp, a man whole life and death bore fome refemblance to thofe of the cruel Beaton; but Sharp died with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a chriftian, praying for his afiaffins, with his lateft breath. Oa the tomb is reprefented the manner of his death : on the... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 964 pages
...his carriage, and, amidrt the cries and entreaties of the lady, moil cruelly and butcherly murdered. He died with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a chriftian, praying for the aflaíüns with his lateft breath ! The murderers all retired to feparate prayer ; and one of them,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 414 pages
...Archbishop Sharp, a man whose life .and death bore some resemblance to those of the cruel Beaton ; but Sharp died with the intrepidity Of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for his assassins with his latest breath. On the tomb is represented the manner... | |
 | 1847 - 788 pages
...charity, he had no contracted views. The widows and orphans of the Presbyterian brethren richly shared his bounty without knowing whence it came. He died...with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for the assassins with his latest breath." GENTLY ye fall, ye summer showers, On... | |
 | 1822 - 590 pages
...word bore in upon them. Go and prosper. On the 3d of May, they met him, and cruelly butchered him. He died with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying even for his assassins with his latest breath. The murderers all retired to separate... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1844 - 950 pages
...charity he had no contracted views. The widows and orphans of the Presbyterian brethren richly shared his bounty without knowing whence it came. He died...with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for the assassins with his latest breath."^ It is already mentioned that Bishop... | |
 | 1847 - 818 pages
...charity, he had no contracted views. The widows and orphans of the Presbyterian brethren richly shared his bounty without knowing whence it came. He died...with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for the assassins with his latest breath." GENTLY ye fall, ye summer showers, On... | |
 | Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 1847 - 516 pages
...the son of Mr. Sharp, sheriff-clerk of Banffshire: his mother was a daughter of the laird of Kininvy. He died with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for the assassins with his latest breath." (The Statistical Account of Scotland,... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1921 - 532 pages
...charity he had no contracted views. The widows and orphans of the Presbyterian brethren richly shared his bounty without knowing whence it came. He died...with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a Christian, praying for the assassins with his latest breath.' MAGUS MUIR GENTLY ye fall, ye summer... | |
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... praise of a beneficent and humane disposition. He bestowed a considerable part of his income in ministering to pressing indigence, and relieving the wants of private distress. In the exercise of his charity, he had no contracted views. The widows... 