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  • It does not appear to occur to them, that here are the very descendants of that old Saxa-Gothic race who sacked Rome, who banished the Stuarts from the English throne, and who have ever, in all positions, used all their might to battle tyranny and oppression, who hate taxations as they hate snakes, and whose day and night dreams have ever been of liberty, that dear cry of Freiheit, whichever war made "Germania" ring.

    Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

  • It does not appear to occur to them, that here are the very descendants of that old Saxa-Gothic race who sacked Rome, who banished the Stuarts from the English throne, and who have ever, in all positions, used all their might to battle tyranny and oppression, who hate taxations as they hate snakes, and whose day and night dreams have ever been of liberty, that dear cry of _Freiheit_, whichever war made

    Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

  • You just can’t get that in Stuarts Draft, no matter how hard you try.

    Waldo Jaquith - 5 signs your town sucks. 2006

  • It is just a pity that there are no pictures, for on the whole the Stuarts were a handsome lot.

    Servants To Masters Allan Mallinson 2011

  • They feel that the Stuarts were the last kings of England to rule by the grace of God rather than by the grace of

    Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

  • This sentiment for the Stuarts is a thing entirely apart from reason and belongs to the realm of poetry and romance; yet so strong is it that it has shown itself in the most inconsistent fashion.

    Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr

  • This very pretty story might have passed with the public as a mere romance, and, possibly, the two names on the title-page might have been regarded as mere _noms de plume_, if vague reports had not previously been circulated which made it apparent that the motive of the so-called Stuarts was to deceive the public rather than to amuse them.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • Riots, which have been hastily touched upon in the histories of the period, but which the minute descriptions of memoirs of that period show to have been attended with an unusual display of violence and brutality on both sides, broke out upon every anniversary which could recall the Stuarts to recollection.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • This sentiment for the Stuarts is a thing entirely apart from reason and belongs to the realm of poetry and romance; yet so strong is it that it has shown itself in the most inconsistent fashion.

    Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

  • They feel that the Stuarts were the last kings of England to rule by the grace of God rather than by the grace of

    Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr

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