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...e only thing we could save from a wreck off the Spurn,” said her husband. “Scottish as I take it. The rogues seem to have taken to their boats, leavin... ...owever, it enabled him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all di... ... I would not desire to be a shipwrecked man in these parts, and if I had a Scottish or a French tongue in my head so much the worse for me.” “Ah, Mast... ...s, the Club of London. Twelve scriveners had their tables to act as letter-writers, and sometimes as legal advisers, and great amusement might be had ... ...with coifs are the Attorney and Solicitor General. The rest are clerks and writers and the like.” “It is a mighty and fearful array,” said Cicely with... ...r Queen Mary, whose life hung in the balance, more heartsick with what old writers well named ‘wanhope’ than any of them; but they had to live on, and...

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...........................................................37 TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ........................................................ ...d the fire addressed its eveing hours. BOOK II. – In Scots TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ae } ae } = open A as in rare. a’ } au } = AW as in l... ...or you, my buckie. “The hale concern (baith hens an’ eggs, Baith books an’ writers, stars an’ clegs) Noo stachers upon lowsent legs An’ wears awa’; Th... ...ntie – An’ the ba’ rise into the air, A leevin’ lintie: Sae in the game we writers play, There comes to some a bonny day, When a dear ferlie shall rep...

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...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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... were novels — ah! I trouble you to find such novels in the present day! O Scottish Chiefs, didn’t we weep over you! O Mysteries of Udolpho, didn’t I ... ... not pleasing to me; I even thought it a little vulgar — well! well! other writers have been considered vulgar — and as a description of the sports an...

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...ed (and who as regards mere lineage are no better than a dozen English and Scottish houses I could name), was prouder of his post about the Court than... ... said the lawyer. And Harry began to translate:— “Hath not one of your own writers said, ‘The children of Adam are now laboring as much as he himself ... ... father would never 92 Henry Esmond – Book One have allowed; his favorite writers appealing more to reason and antiquity than to the passions or imag...

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...ce the king caused his premises to be guarded by a de- tachment of his own Scottish guard. Such royal solicitude made the courtiers believe that the o... ...on looking at it, his attention was excited by a sort of vision, which the writers of those days would have called “cornue,”—perhaps with ref- erence ... ...eaving the rue du Murier, his people stopped him, seeing an officer of the Scottish guard riding towards them at full speed. “What is it?” asked the p... ...djoining hall. These two Tourainean seigneurs looked at the captain of the Scottish guard, who was sleeping in his chair, accord- ing to his usual cus... ...ster’s face. The two men were a picture in themselves. History and romance-writers have consecrated the brown camlet coat, and the breeches of the sam...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ... reign of Henri II. to make head against the Guises, the Montmorencys, the Scottish princes, the cardinals, and the Bouillons, he distinguished himsel... ...himself to the eyes of young Pardaillan, the officer of the guard, and the Scottish captain. The agitation which, in a royal castle, always attends th... ...g to Mary. “I owe you all respect, and should not dare to do so,” said the Scottish queen, maliciously, glancing at Dayelle. Placed between the rival ...

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...hed his instructions with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien... ...egroom. Duke Hamilton, then Earl of Arran, had been educated at the famous Scottish university of Glasgow, and, coming to London, became a great favor... ...y from the original creation. His Grace took the oaths and his seat in the Scottish parliament in 1700: was famous there for his patriotism and eloque... ...on opposed with all his strength, though he would not go the length of the Scottish gentry, who were for resisting it by force of arms. ’Twas said he ... ...in command of the army, and more information on military matters than most writers, who had never seen beyond the fire of a tobacco- pipe at “Wills’s,... .... John and his party. But he disdained the abuse in which some of the Tory writers indulged; for instance, Dr. Swift, who actually chose to doubt the ...

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...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first... ...ng To the braes o’ Balquidder.” – which is indeed apt to echo in the ears of Scottish chil- dren, and to him, in view of his experience, must have fou...

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...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

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...d schemes were formed, as desperate as they were adventurous. Thus a young Scottishman of rank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal... ...s on the Law of Scotland Resolved and Answered,’ are works of authority in Scottish jurisprudence. As is generally the case, the doubts are held more ... ...ill of late years, every advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in s... ...al tracts, and the latter formed a small selection of history and of moral writers, both in prose and verse. Neither collection promising much amuseme... ...USE This small dark coffee-house, now burnt down, was the re- sort of such writers and clerks belonging to the Parliament House above thirty years ago...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...

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...t have been in Europe; the moun- tain forms behind modelled in little from the Alps, and the forest which clustered on their ramparts a growth no more... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mostly French... ...own 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a ruinous wall encloses the cemetery of the ...

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...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ...n this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in the lowest. I have often been asked how I first... ...ury of thought had failed even to advance by one hair’s breadth? All other writers had been crushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of facts and d...

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...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre...

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...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ..., I have felt that he, better than I, illustrated the virtues of the great Scottish chief. Sure I am, that had any slave-catcher entered his domicile,...

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...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ...hunted through all sorts of tortures, yields a break- fast roll that (as a Scottish baker observed to me) is ‘not just that bad.’ Certainly not: not e... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ... never said the thing ascribed to him here as any formal judgment, or what Scottish law would call deliver- ance, upon the ‘Hyperion.’ As to what he m...

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...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near...

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...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...t is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction—not to say, suggesti... ...alarm (for he trusted in certain prophecies, which, like those made to the Scottish tyrant “kept the promise to the ear, but broke it to the sense,”) ...