Identifier: gri_33125013643560 (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Church architecture Architecture Castles
Publisher: London, Published by the author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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earlier days, he would have felt that hissafety lay in fighting his post, since he had to deal with opponents who, like himself, trusted to themortui non mordent. His policy appears to have been to erect a safety-retreat for himself amongthe mountains, near the stiongholds of his still powerful kinsmen. His knowledge of his familyhistory would teach him the uses of such a refuge. More than once, in the tragic history of hishouse, had the critical moment passed over while the fugitive was safe in his unapproachablefortalice. Presuming the legend of the building of Drochil, however, to be well founded, hisenemies were more active than his builders. A second time he submitted to his fate, instead ofseeking such refuge as he might have found, He had forgotten, says Godscroft, the oldmaxim of his predecessors, that it was better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep, andibeir proverb loose and living, and surrendered himself on the first summons. * GoJscrofts House of Douglas, p. 137.
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