 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 344 pages
...It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she knelt down and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy...revelation, to prevent her from utterly disbelieving in his providence and justice ; one of the most emphatic prayers, perhaps, ever uttered. Her daring... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1829 - 344 pages
...princes. It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she kneltdown and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy...revelation, to prevent her from utterly disbelieving in his providence and justice ; one of the most emphatic prayers, perhaps, ever uttered. Her daring... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1829 - 350 pages
...It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she knelt down and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy...go out of the world without some visible token of bis indignation, he would be pleased to make her some especial revelation, to prevent her from utterly... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Great Britain - 1853 - 342 pages
...white gloves, and a rope, as indicative of her opinion, with a curse upon their marriage, and a prayer to God that " should He see fit to permit the unworthy couple to leave the world without some visible token of his indignation, He would be pleased to make her some... | |
 | Mark Napier - Scotland - 1862 - 422 pages
...It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she knelt down, and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy...indignation, he would be pleased to make her some special revelation, to prevent her from utterly disbelieving in his providence and justice ; one of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1829 - 348 pages
...It is said, that when she received an account of the nuptials, she knelt down and fervently prayed to God, that, should he see fit to permit the unworthy...revelation, to prevent her from utterly disbelieving in his providence and justice ; one of the most emphatic prayers, perhaps, ever uttered. Her daring... | |
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... Claverhouse, mother to Lord Dundee, was much shocked at the match, which offended her moral sense in much the same way as the union of Hamlet's mother and uncle disgusted that most philosophical of princes. It is said, that when she received an account... 