| Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 746 pages
...this massacre, says: — "So long as history shall be read, and treachery hated, that name, Glencoe, shall thrill mankind with undiminished horror ! The...cowardly and so ferocious. That massacre was not warfare ; it was not the execution of justice ; it was assassination on a great scale, and under circumstances... | |
| James W. Miller - 1877 - 452 pages
...horror ! The story is more than a century old now; the human race has heard it talked over for more than a hundred years. But the tale is as fresh in its fearful...British soldiers were never at once so cowardly and ferocious. That massacre was not warfare; it was not the execution of justice ; it was assassination... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1878 - 880 pages
...over the hearts of men. For so long as history shall be read, and treachery hated, that name, Glencoe, shall thrill mankind with undiminished horror ! The...cowardly and so ferocious. That massacre was not warfare ; it was not the execution of justice ; it was assassination on a great scale, and under circumstances... | |
| 1886 - 702 pages
...this massacre, says: — "So long as history shall bo read, anil treachery hated, that name, Glencoe, shall thrill mankind with undiminished horror ! The...cruelly requited ; British soldiers were never at onuc so cowardly and so ferocious. That massacre was not warfare ; it was not the execution of justice... | |
| Keith Clark - 1916 - 506 pages
...undiminished horror ! The story is a century old now (1859). The human race has heard it talked of for over a hundred years. But the tale is as fresh in its fearful...interest as the latest murder in the newspapers." Yet, a half century still later, I have heard those who declared Glencoe lovely and not terrible. No... | |
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