Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner, who was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745: With an Appendix, Relating to the Ancient Family of the Munroes of FowlisBookselllers, 1794 - 287 pages |
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Page 45 - I did not particularly inquire, whom he was to attend exactly at twelve. The company broke up about eleven ; and not judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other way. But it very accidentally happened, that he took up a religious book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau. It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian Soldier,...
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