...f his youth doubtless counted for something in the result. For the lads of Ayrshire, as soon as the day’s work was over and the beasts were stabled, w... ...this rustic society was built; gallantry was the essence of life among the Ayrshire hills as well as in the Court of Versailles; and the days were dis... ...s on the benches, and began to reach the ushers and monitors of this great Ayrshire academy. This arose in part from his lax views about religion; for... ... battle against poor soil, bad seed, and inclement seasons, wading deep in Ayrshire mosses, guiding the plough in the furrow wielding “the thresher’s ... ...nal economics, as we may call it, he displayed a vast amount of truly down-East calculation, and he adopted poverty like a piece of business. Yet his ... ...ative and a parabolical writer, not because he loved the literature of the East, but from a desire that people should understand and realise what he w... ...down to repose; sleep overtook them as they lay; and when they awoke, “the east was already white” for their last morning in Japan. They seized a fish... ...egrees of bygone men, from the holy Apostles and the golden Emperor of the East, down to the heralds, pursuivants, and trumpeters, who also bore their... ...rage, kindness, or troublesome reflection; and thus the Gospel, cleared of East- ern metaphor, becomes a manual of worldly prudence, and a handybook f...

...ional purposes of good, flinching accep- tance of evil, shiverings on wet, east-windy, morning jour- neys up to class, infinite yawnings during lectur... ...e- thing of a rustic air, sturdy and fresh and plain; he spoke with a ripe east-country accent, which I used to admire; his reminiscences were all of ... ..., reviewing what he knew, and already secure of success. His window looked east- ward, and being (as I said) high up, and the house itself standing on... ...n, and the walls of the little chambers brightened with the wonders of the East. The dullest could see this was a house that had a pair of hands in di... ...n his lips was in this Spartan key. He had over- walked in the teeth of an east wind, and was now near the end of his many days. He sat by the dining-... ...ave forgotten, too, how we grew up, and took orders, and went to our first Ayrshire parish, and fell in love with and married a daughter of Burns’s Dr...

... to have been of very great antiquity in the provinces of Ben- gal, in the East Indies, and in some of the eastern provinces of China, though the grea... ... of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. In the eastern provinces of China, too, several great rivers form, by their differ... ...ent state of Ben- gal, and of some other of the English settlements in the East Indies. In a fertile country, which had before been much depopulated, ... ...a, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, can- not, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the different... ... been a considerable rise in the demand for labour, about Glasgow, Carron, Ayrshire, etc. In England, the improvements of agriculture, manufactures, a... ... and so easily acquired in Bengal and the other British settlements in the East Indies, may satisfy us, that as the wages of labour are very low, so t...