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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William

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The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Name: The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Author: Hone, William

Hone, William

Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs

Young, beautiful, and learned Jane, intent
      On knowledge, found it peace; her vast acquirement
    Of goodness was her fall; she was content
      With dulcet pleasures, such as calm retirement

    Yields to the wise alone;--her only vice
      Was virtue: in obedience to her sire
    And lord she died, with them, a sacrifice
      To their ambition: her own mild desire

    Was rather to be happy than be great;
      For though at their request she claimed the crown,
    That they, through her, might rise to rule the state,
      Yet, the bright diadem, and gorgeous throne,

    She view’d as cares, dimming the dignity
    Of her unsullied mind, and pure benignity.

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1815. On the 4th of January, died Alexander Macdonald, Esq., who is no
other way remarkable, than for a chivalrous devotion to the family of
Stuart. He raised a monument in the vale of Glenfinnyn, at the head of
Lochshiel, in the county of Inverness, with a Latin, Gaelic, and English
inscription, to commemorate the last open efforts of that family, for
the recovery of a crown they had forfeited by innumerable breaches of
the laws, and whose aggressions on life and property being suffered,
till

    “_Non-resistance_ could no further go,”

they were excluded from the throne of the people, by the aristocracy and
commonalty of England in parliament assembled. As evidence of the spirit
that dictated such a memorial, and of the proper feeling which permits
that spirit to be expressed, in spite of its hostility to the principles
that deposited and continued the diadem of the commonwealth in the
custody of the house of Hanover, the inscription on the monument is
placed in the next column. It stands in English in these words:

  On the spot where
  PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD
  First raised his Standard,
  On the 19th day of August, MDCCXLV,
  When he made the daring and romantic attempt
  To recover a Throne lost by the imprudence of his
  Ancestors,
  This Column was erected by
  ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Esq., of
  Glenaladale,
  To commemorate the generous zeal,
  Undaunted bravery, and the inviolable fidelity,
  Of his forefathers, and the rest of those
  Who fought and bled in that
  Arduous and unfortunate enterprise.
  This Pillar is now,
  Alas!
  Also become the Monument
  Of its amiable and accomplished Founder,
  Who,
  Before it was finished,
  Died in Edinburgh on the 4th day of January,
  MDCCCXV.

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