Excerpt from Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Hon. Col. James Gardiner, Who Was Slain at the Battle of Preston Pans, September 21, 1745: To Which Is Added, the Sermon, Occasioned by His Heroick Death Of military and civil, oublie and domefiic lifes You trace hirri perfcvcring m a {foady and form courre of goodnefs, through a long {cries of' honourab'le and profpc'rous years, the deg. Light of all that were to happy as to know himr and, in his fphere, the moil: faithful guar dian of his country till at laft, worn out with horiourable labours, and broken with infirmittes which they had hafiened upon him before the time, you fee him forgetting them at'once at the call oi duty and Providence; with all the gen erous ardour of his molt vigorous; days ruihin'g on the enemies of religion and liberty, fufiar'niirg their {hock with the' molt deliberate fortitude, when deferted by thofe tha't {hot-id have fup ported him, and cheerfully facrificing the little remains of a mortal life, 11i the triumphant views ofa glorious immortality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.