| David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pages
...superadded, yet so true were his people, so strict to their promise of secrecy, * and so dexteroas in conveying to him the necessaries he required in...France in 1755, and died there the following year. It would be endless to adduce particular examples of fidelity often tried and never found to fail,... | |
| David Stewart - 1822 - 552 pages
...should apprehend him was super-added, yet so true were his people, so prudent in their conversation, and so dexterous in conveying to him the necessaries...required in his long confinement, that not a trace could be discovered, nor an individual found base enough to give • The late Sir Hector Monro, then... | |
| David Stewart (Major-General.) - 1825 - 662 pages
...apprehend him was superadded, yet so true were his people, so strict to their promise of secrecy, * and so dexterous in conveying to him the necessaries...France in 1755, and died there the following year. It would be endless to adduce particular examples of fidelity often tried and never found to fail,... | |
| William Forbes Skene - 1837 - 346 pages
...proscribed individual, yet so true were his people, so inflexibly strict to their promise of secresy, and so dexterous in conveying to him the necessaries...trace of him could be discovered, nor an individual base enough to give a hint to his detriment. Many anecdotes are still related in the country of the... | |
| James Browne - 1838 - 538 pages
...people, so strict to their promise of secrecy, and so dexterous in conveying to him the necessaries ho required, in his long confinement, that not a trace...France in 1755, and died there the following year."— Stewart's Skctchet, 3d Edition, voL ip 62. " The late Sir Hector Munro, then a lieutenant in the 34th... | |
| James Browne - 1838 - 532 pages
...i. pp. 6O, lil. ward, and a step of promotion was promised to the officer who should apprehend him, not a trace of him could be discovered, nor an individual...found base enough to give a hint to his detriment. Many anecdotes have been related of the narrow escapes which he made in eluding the vigilance of the... | |
| James Browne - 1843 - 532 pages
...should apprehend him was superadded, yet so true were his people, so strict to their promise of secrecy, and so dexterous in conveying to him the necessaries he required. in his lung confinement, that not a trace of him could be discovered, nor an individual found base enough... | |
| James Browne - 1849 - 554 pages
...their promise of secrecy, and so dexterous In conveying to him the necessaries he required, in his lung confinement, that not a trace of him could be discovered,...length, wearied out with this dreary and hopeless slate of existence, and taught to despair of pardon, he escaped to France in 1755, and died there the... | |
| Thomas Smibert - 1850 - 596 pages
...eonveying to him the neeessaries he required in his long eonfinement, that not a traee eould be diseovered, nor an individual found base enough to give a hint...detriment. At length, wearied out with this dreary and*ho[ieless stute of existenee, and taught to despair of pardon, he eseaped to Franee in 1755, and... | |
| James Browne - 1851 - 600 pages
...i. pp. 60, 61. ward, and a step of promotion was promised to the officer who should apprehend him, not a trace of him could be discovered, nor an individual found liii-ii- enough to give a hint to his detriment. Many anecdotes have been related of the narrow escapes... | |
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