 | Sir James Hope Grant - 1875 - 362 דפים
...style, and is characterised by a modest tone. . . . The whole work is delightful reading." — Globe. Memoirs and Adventures of Sir William Kirkaldy of...for Mary Queen of Scots. By James Grant. 'Post 8vo, IDS. 6d. "It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous,... | |
 | William M'Combie - 1875 - 258 דפים
...style, and is characterised by a modest tone. . . . The whole work is delightful reading." — Globe. Memoirs and Adventures of Sir William Kirkaldy of...for Mary Queen of Scots. By James Grant. Post 8vo, I0S. 6d. "It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous,... | |
 | Lucy Bethia Walford - 1875 - 394 דפים
...style, and is characterised by a modest tone. . . . The whole work is delightful reading." — Globe. Memoirs and Adventures of Sir William Kirkaldy of...for Mary Queen of Scots. By James Grant. Post 8vo, 1os. 6d. "It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous,... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1875 - 612 דפים
...manly, unadorned narrative."— Daily Neva. Grant— MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF SIR WILLIAM KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE, Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. By JAMES GRANT. Post 8vo, los. 6d. " It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous,... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1875 - 552 דפים
...manly, unadorned narrative."— Baity News. Grant— MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF SIR WILLIAM KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE, Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. By JAMES GRANT. Post 8vo, IDS. 6d. <f It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous,... | |
 | Samuel Halkett, John Laing, Catherine Laing - 1883 - 464 דפים
...Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight, commander of French horse, Lord of the Secret Council, and governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. [By James GRANT.] Edinburgh and London. MDCCCXLIX. Octavo. Pp. x. 383.* [Adv. Lib.] MEMOIRS and antiquities of the town... | |
 | James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1855 - 496 דפים
...PROVOST, AND OTHER TALES. By JOHN GALT. Foolscap 8vo, 4s. GALT.— SIR ANDREW WYLIE. By JOHN GALT. Foolscap 8vo, 4s. GORRIE.— ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE...BOTANICAL SCIENCE. Foolscap 8vo, with Illustrations, price 3s. 6d. GRANT. — MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF SIR WILLIAM KERKALDT OF GRANGE, Governor of the... | |
 | George Tancred - 1899 - 542 דפים
...keeper of Liddesdale, and provost of Edinburgh and Jedburgh. Sir Thomas married, first, a daughter of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange, governor of the castle of Edinburgh, by whom he left a son, Sir Andrew, and two daughters, Janet and 1 One of the conditions of the surrender... | |
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It is seldom, indeed, that we find history so written, in a style at once vigorous, perspicuous, and picturesque. The author's heart is thoroughly with his subject. 
