 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues,...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence. VOL. VIII. U In the morning we sent our horses round a promontory to meet us, and spared ourselves... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 500 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr MacDonald, and his lady Flora MacDonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues,...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence ;" and in a letter to Mrs Thrale he adds, " here I had the honour of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr MacDonald, ;uid his lady Flora MacDonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues,...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence ;" and in a letter to Mrs Thrale he adds, " here I had the honour of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 476 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr MacDonald, and his lady Flora MacDonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues,...honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, pentle manners, and elegant presence ;" and in a letter to Mrs Thrale he adds, " here I had the honour... | |
 | 346 pages
...daughters; and of Flora Macdonald, who died in March, 1790, aged 68— a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. — " She was a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." So wrote Johnson.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...be mentioned in history, and, it courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour." He adds, " she is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence" — a picture the more remarkable, when it is recollected that she was now fifty-three yeais of age.... | |
 | Tales - Women - 1846 - 248 pages
...unusual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald and his lady, Flora Macdonald — a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues,...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." And again, in a letter to Mrs. Thrale — " There I had the honour of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 310 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues,...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." And again, Dr. Johnson writes to Mrs. Thrale ; — " Here I had the honour of saThat here he lived,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 318 pages
...the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues,...mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soil features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." And again, Dr. Johnson writes to Mrs. Thrale... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1861 - 352 pages
...name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honor. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence"; and in a letter to Mrs. Thrale, he adds: "Here I had the honor of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
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We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. 
