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...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...in the early 1900s. Certainly invading another country is routine for the regiments of history‘s conquerors. And sometimes the vanquished are resurre...

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...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...most a cyni- cal expression. This worthy gentleman’s reputation for shrewd Scottish sense, knowledge of our national antiquities, and a racy humour pe... ...he was sure, could be more generous in his nature, or more ready to help a Scottish purpose. Sir Walter Scott,—There is one who ought to be remem- ber... ...which their dark tartans fur- nished to the scarlet and white of the other regiments.] There were some Italian and Flemish pictures of admitted authen... ...s, mother, I go far—far from all of these. I am enlisted in one of the new regiments, and we go against the French in America.” “Enlisted!” uttered th... ...of Garth, [The gallant and amiable author of the His- tory of the Highland Regiments, in whose glorious services his own share had been great, went ou... ...e of friends and acquaintance.] in giving the real history of the Highland regiments, has rendered any attempt to fill up the sketch with fancy-colour...

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... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...ng demoralization of the lower orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, ... ...marked rekindling of reli- gious fervor. In what extent this change in the Scottish church had been due, mediately or immediately, to Methodism, we do... ...rhaps the right, for the Prussian cavalry (who drew their custom from some regiments in the service 107 Thomas de Quincey of Gustavus Adolphus; and t...

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...d afterwards, where his sis ter, who was young and beautiful, married the Scottish King. Edgar himself was not important enough for anybody to care m... ...ng away from Dover, where he happened to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refug... ... Merton Abbey upon these conditions, and journeyed away to see his wife: a Scottish Princess who was then at St. Edmund’s Bury. Almost as soon as he h... ...ried to Margaret, King Edward’s sister. All their children being dead, the Scottish crown became the right of a young Princess only eight years old, t... ...Bor der land where England and Scotland joined. There, he called upon the Scottish gentlemen to meet him at the Castle of Norham, on the English side... ...ued letters to borrow money at high interest. The Parliament raised twenty regiments of foot and seventy five troops of horse; and the people willingl... ...h the blood stained Irish rebels for a sum of money, and invited the Irish regiments over, to help him against the Parliament. In the battle of Naseby... ...d now the common soldiers began to take that of fice upon themselves. The regiments under orders for Ire land mutinied; one troop of horse in the ci...

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...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ...y a poor and discontented nobility, under whom it was officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune, who had served in the German wars until they ... ...s of his domination, had fired the train, by attempting to impose upon the Scottish people church ceremonies foreign to their habits and opinions. The... ...trymen, the fathers of the war, and the raisers of those valorous Scottish regiments that were the dread of Germany, began to fall pretty thick, what ... ...aguer- lasses who followed his camp marshalled into tertias (whilk me call regiments), and officered and commanded by those of their own feminine gend...

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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... ... I know your good father would term this sinning my mer- cies, [A peculiar Scottish phrase expressive of ingratitude for the favours of Providence.] a... ... be, not my Apollo—quid tibi cum lyra?—but my Lord Stair, [Celebrated as a Scottish law- yer.] Meanwhile, I have written myself out of my melan- choly... ...rs, upon whom alone the trust of the exiled family reposed, assembled into regiments which act under the orders of the existing dynasty. [The Highland... ...egiments which act under the orders of the existing dynasty. [The Highland regiments were first employed by the celebrated Earl of Chatham, who assume... ... perhaps,’ answered Redgauntlet; ‘but the policy which raised the Highland regiments has provided for that. We have already friends in these corps; no...

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...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic re... ...ovecot, or Columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the cont... ... and pointed against the heights. The march was continued by three or four regiments of in- fantry marching in open column, their fixed bayonets show-... ... of rapine. He was particularly employed in learn- ing the strength of the regiments in Scotland, the character of the officers, &c., and had long had...

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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... ...didna gae doon,’ as she saw some one pass her with a chess-board on the holy day. Some sang Scottish psalms. Many went to service, and in true Scottis... ...d unconscious of his insensibility. The Irish husband, who sang his wife to sleep, and this Scottish girl serving her Orson, were the two bits of huma... ... here, after Waterloo, rather than yield its en- sign to the new power, one of his faithful regiments burned that memorial of so much toil and glory o...

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...ely escorted us to the end of the lock under an umbrella. We had now brought ourselves to a pitch of humility in the matter of weather, not often at- ... ...ould not be possible to fight at all in such a spirit. The bravest conscript would turn pale if such a ditty were struck up beside him on the morning ... ...e Oise. 72 Robert Louis Stevenson ! HE MOST PATIENT PEOPLE grow weary at last with being continually wetted with rain; exc... ...and the bang of the drum, when the brasses cease, and the shrill pipes take up the martial story in their place? A girl, at school in France, began to...

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...nd, and the yottowas** sat at his feet. * “Leaves,” the plates of Tahiti. ** “Yottowas,” so spelt for convenience of pronunciation, quasi Tacksmen in ... ...And the neighing of the war-pipes Struck terror in Cathay.* * “Cathay.” There must be some omission in General Stewart’s charming History of the Highl...

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...hitherward, from the claws of the Chatelet; and will raise whole scoundrel-regiments. Also it has to hear of Royalist Camp of Jales: Jales moun- tain-... ...al!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk- bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay beyond the... ...y: it has some forty thousand divided souls of population; and three large Regiments, one of which is Swiss Chateau- Vieux, dear to Patriotism ever si... ... superintendence; getting his pacified Salm, and all other still tolerable Regiments, marched out of Metz, to southward towns and villages; to rural C... ...wer, there does wait on him at Frouarde, some Deputation from the mutinous Regiments, from the Nanci Municipals, to see what can be done. Bouille rece... ...d part of that number, in National Guards also uncertain, in mere pacified Regiments,—for the present full of rage, and clamour to march; but whose ra... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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...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 ... ...e Church of England, were for having a Papist king, for whom many of their Scottish and English leaders, firm churchmen all, laid down their lives wit... ...to hold it. In expectation of the stroke that was now preparing, the Irish regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Pi... ...he Council summoned; the guard at Kensington and St. James’s, of which two regiments were to be entirely relied on, and one known not to be hostile, w... ...astlewood who insisted on coming,” the Doctor said.) Argyle had marched up regiments from Portsmouth, and sent abroad for more; the Whigs were on the ...

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...tV oted by gentlemen From Ireland, and From the Low Kountries, who bore indeed King James’s Kommission, and were Kalled Kolonels and Kaptains, but who... ...it again upon a foot of fairy lightness; and I believe this first suggested to me the idea of the Chevalier Burke for a narrator. It was at first inte...

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...w that a conspiracy was traced at Wa- terloo, between two or three foreign regiments, for kindling a panic in the heat of battle, by flight, and by a ... ...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... ... younger sister of my friend’s mother, had been engaged for some time to a Scottish nobleman, the Earl of Morton, much esteemed by the royal family. T... ...the Wood. It is an inexplicable fact, that many deserters from the militia regiments, who had behaved well throughout the campaign, and adhered faithf... ...t should be mentioned, that the royal army was composed chiefly of militia regiments. Not that militia, or regiments composed chiefly of men who had b... ...he defeated rebels, but also as respected the royalists of that town. “The regiments that came to their assistance, being all militia, seemed to think...

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...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,”) ... ... good deal of delusion prevalent on such subjects. In some English cavalry regiments, the custom is for the privates to take only one meal a day, whic... ... ascertained that the quantity of porter or substantial ale drunk in these regiments does virtually allow many meals, by comparison with the washy tea... ...But whatever might be the value or ex- tent of his reforms in the marching regiments, Alexander could not succeed in binding the prætorian guards to h...

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..., 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 ... ...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... ...ng men, aged severally sixteen and seventeen years, went out to join their regiments, both regiments be- ing on the Bengal establishment. Very differe... ...s, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal narra- tion. On ... ...ce was given to a Royal Commission, sent to investigate one or more of the Scottish universities. In the German universi- ties, every professor holds ... ...l channel open to their instincts of abhorrence. The most important of the Scottish professorships—those which are fundamen- tally morticed to the mor... ...t of his, though counting amongst their number many deserters from veteran regiments; but the horses of their own party were in general poor and out o...

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...captivity had been the worst of all—almost every noble was a robber chief; Scottish Borderer preyed upon English Borderer, Highlander upon Lowlander, ... ...they were such ponderous articles that they sometimes served as weapons. A Scottish virago has been know to dash out the brains of a wounded enemy wit... ...nd in the valley he could see with his telescope the various Parliamentary regiments, as they poured out of the town of Keinton, and took up their pos... ...e when war had become far more cruel and mischievous in the hands of hired regiments than ever it had been with a feudal army, and when at the same ti...

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...eserved all down the length of the nave by the tall, towering forms of the Scottish archers, in their rich accoutrements, many of them gallant gentlem... ...wished they had been younger and more fash- ionable, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Deli... ...Sir Andrew Macniven, who had made his way through the mob like a brave old Scottish knight, brought us word that he could assure us that our own Queen... ...brother in, for indeed he was hardly fit to walk downstairs. Presently the Scottish knight knocked at the door, and de- sired to speak with me. ‘What ... ...s and vineyards, the main body of T urenne’s troops were drawn up in their regiments, looking firm and steady, in dark lines, flashing now and then in...

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...hters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero Wallace, as the old gentleman would sometimes ad- monish him;... ...ioned. In those very days while Arthur Coningsby was getting read amid the Scottish moors, “in June, 1833,” Sterling, at Bonn in the Rhine-country, fe... ... the prime author of the whole mad War. But Burnes; and the women; and our regiments! India, however, I feel sure, is safe.” So roll the months at Fal...

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...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... ... 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... ...e.’ William III. again, about eleven years afterwards, raised twenty-three regiments with the same ease and in the same space of six weeks. It may be ...

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...e more troopers, not alike in dress, being, in fact, remnants of shattered regiments. She was trem- bling all over with eagerness, standing up, and so... ... that a news letter had been re- ceived stating that the King was with the Scottish army at Newcastle, and that it was expected that on receiving thei...

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...will serve to make Laurence un- derstood if, to the noble qualities of the Scottish huntress you add the restrained exaltation of Charlotte Corday, su... ...t only of new battles to fight, and his mind was occu- pied in massing his regiments to strike the great blow at the heart of the Prussian monarchy. H...

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...gan to be dis- tinguished into many different sounds. Footsteps and sighs, the tread of regiments marching in the distance, the chink of money in the ... ... to the clamour, that my driver more particularly winced and blanched. Some thoughts of Scottish superstition and the river Kelpie, passed across my m...

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... The whole city seemed peopled with fantastic beings; silent shadows were seen unpaving the streets and others dragging and upsetting great wagons, wh... ...surrendered to the parlia- mentary troops, whilst Oxford and Newark still held out for him in the hopes of coming to some arrangement. At one of the e... ...romwell has arrived this night at Newcastle.” “Ah!” exclaimed the king, “to fight?” “No, sire, but to buy your majesty.” “What did you say?” “I said, ... ...all out your regiment,” said he; “I can foresee that we shall have need of it directly.” Winter turned his horse and the two friends rode on. It had t... ...n, then, Lord Winter. Proceed, sire, I beg. What we are going to say does not concern your majesty.” The king, smiling, turned a few steps back. “This... ...e night having come they made an appointment to meet at eleven o’clock at the hotel, and each started out to fulfill his dangerous mission. 520 Twent...

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...ernoon, and then, when you get back to Y ork, ex- amine one of the militia regiments making its greatest efforts.” “Well, to my eye, Sergeant, there i... ...ant,” returned the supe- rior, a shade of melancholy passing over his hard Scottish fea- tures as he spoke; “and bonnie Scotland is a far-off country.... ...e, Mistress Dunham, is doubtless of a very pool quality, being nothing but Scottish courage; your father’s is 299 James Fenimore Cooper Y ankee, and ... ... of it, Corporal, but I’ve heard much more. The lady who brought me up had Scottish blood in her veins, and was fond of the subject.” “I’ll warrant ye... ...much of this manner in common, mingled with an apparent frankness that his Scottish intonation of voice, Scottish accent, and Scottish modes of expres...

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... require. It turned out that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of y... ...ude the non-commissioned officers, the privates, and the cooks, of all the regiments?’ He could scarcely think that, but thought it provoking the Fren... ...method of enraging him was to distin- guish one or other of them as Irish, Scottish, or Cambrian. He considered it a dismemberment of the country. And... ... you were facing the enemy, tempo- rarily attaching yourself to one of the regiments—I forget which, though I have heard it named—you sprang out un- d...

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...-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The bands of 278 V anity Fair the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks of England wal... ... rather than the French, and at once turning tail rode through the English regiments that were behind them, and scat- tered in all directions. The reg... ... furiously canvassed the governor, the commander-in-chief, the judges, the regiments, and ev- erybody whom he knew in the Presidency, and sent home to... ... O’Dowd and the ladies of the King’s Regiment gave a ball to the Company’s Regiments and the civilians at the station. Glorvina sported the killing pi... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ...at prototype, was Herbert Spencer (who couldn’t read Kant); such are whole regiments of prominent and entirely self-satisfied contemporaries. They go ...

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...d—for I, not coy, Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true; And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy— _325 His errors prov... ...hat’s the matter, my dear fellow, now? Do the troops mutiny?—decimate some regiments; Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper, Till gold be at a d... ...e engine of parliaments Might be deferred until I can bring over The Irish regiments: they will serve to assure The issue of the war against the Scots...

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...very death; when you spoke of a hundred and twenty thousand men across the Scottish border who would take their own redress at any time, if it were no... ...ified, the drawbridges were raised, the cannon loaded and pointed, and two regiments of artillery busied in strength ening the fortress and preparing...

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...t in Scotland as in England. Now, the English kings had never meddled with Scottish affairs before, and the Scots were furious at finding that he 41 ... ...ieted, and English garrisons—that is, guard- ing soldiers —were in all the Scottish towns and castles, when, suddenly, Robert Bruce, one of the half E... ... to keep it out of sight, for all the barons were coming round him for the Scottish war. While he had been wasting his time, Robert Bruce had ob- tain... ... that the reformers knew she would undo all their work. There was a little Scottish girl, also named Mary—the grand-daughter of Margaret, eldest daugh... ...s mother had been driven away. He had been brought up very strictly by the Scottish Reformers, who had made him very learned, and kept him under great... ...l the men learnt something of how to be soldiers, and made themselves into regiments of volunteers; and careful watch was kept against the quantities ... ...ing, while every English person left in the city was murdered. The English regiments in India made haste to come into Bengal, to try to save their cou...

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...ould allow himself to touch it without gloves, it is to be wished that our Scottish brethren would resign, together with ‘backslidings,’ to the use of... ...after as a man sows shall he reap.’ The objections are overwhelming to the Scottish use of the word; first, because already in Scotland it is a barbar... ...hin so short a period were born 87 Thomas de Quincey subterraneously,* in Scottish mines, or in the English collieries of Cumberland, and were suppos... ...ches of this Pariah popu- lation, the work (title I forget) of Mr. Bald, a Scottish engi- neer, well known and esteemed in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He m... ... is rather sullen, on a winter evening, to the eye. On the other hand, the Scottish coal or most of it, being far poorer as to heat, throws out a very... ...e of Maida in Calabria. They com- posed a force equal to about six English regiments of infan- try on the common establishment. Every man of these fou...

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...under the nurture of a ‘Friend of Men,’ has, in State Prisons, in marching Regiments, Dutch Authors’ garrets, and quite other scenes, ‘been for twenty... ... look blue. The only thing one sees advisable is to bring up soldiers. New regiments, two, and a battalion of a third, have already reached Paris; oth... ...s, somewhat may be healed, clouted up;— we meanwhile getting forward Swiss Regiments, and a ‘hun- dred pieces of field-artillery.’ This is what the Oe... ...ed grass.’ But on all highways there hover dust- clouds, with the march of regiments, with the trailing of can- non: foreign Pandours, of fierce aspec... ...im World-Whirlpool; discerning shapes and phantasms; imminent bloodthirsty Regiments camped on the Champ-de- Mars; dispersed National Assembly; redhot... ...ral!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk-bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay be- yond t... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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...ccupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from Russia were settling near the fortress of B... ... the commander-in-chief, Kutuzov. On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached Braunau had halted half a mile from the tow... ...llage, continually meeting and overtaking soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the f... ...gaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the regiments, both cav- alry and infantry, were by no means ready for the im- ... ...hes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. CHAPTER XX THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS that had been caught unawares in the outskirts of the wood ran ou... ...ing me with a mild smile what I had learned and gained in the Prussian and Scottish lodges. I told him everything as best I could, and told him what I... ...s in a shabby dressing gown, copying out the origi- nal transaction of the Scottish lodge of Freemasons at a table in his low room cloudy with tobacco...

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...uburn, the golden ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the f... ...itle of the Grand Army of the Ganges and the Jumna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded b... ...nted out the enemy from beneath the shadow of the Pyramids, or rallied his regiments to the charge upon the death-strewn plain of Wagram. I have had m... ... have a marine that shall drive her ships from the seas; a few of my brave regiments will do the rest. Henceforth, the traveller in that desert island... ...mped opposite to them for the most part in better order. The noble cavalry regiments found a village in which they made themselves pretty com- fortabl... ...ptor, was hardly treated with decent politeness. The priests and the noble regiments who rode back when the affair was over, were for having the Princ...

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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... ...ced with six thousand foot, English and Dutch, thirty squadrons, and three regiments of Imperial Cuirassiers, the Duke crossing the river at the head ... ...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 ... ...e Church of England, were for having a Papist king, for whom many of their Scottish and English leaders, firm churchmen all, laid down their lives wit... ...to hold it. In expectation of the stroke that was now preparing, the Irish regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Pi... ...he Council summoned; the guard at Kensington and St. James’s, of which two regiments were to be entirely relied on, and one known not to be hostile, w... ...astlewood who insisted on coming,” the Doctor said.) Argyle had marched up regiments from Portsmouth, and sent abroad for more; the Whigs were on the ...

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...Valladolid, were the King and his Court. Consequently, there was plenty of regiments and plenty of regimental bands. Attracted by one of these, Catali... ...there? If ever Dr. Johnson said a true word, it was when he replied to the Scottish judge Burnett, so well known to the world as Lord Monboddo. The ju... ... wells without their advice. We ourselves knew an amiable and accomplished Scottish family, who, at an estate called Belmadrothie, in memory of a simi... ... before the event a description of that tournament, on the marriage of the Scottish Queen with his eldest son, Francis II., which proved fatal to hims... ...ewer or cess-pool to receive her impurities. Some time back I remem- ber a Scottish newspaper holding up the case as a newly dis- covered horror in th... ...upon our shore, once or so in the season. What amuses one besides, in this Scottish denunciation of the villany, is, that Scotland* of old, pursued th...

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...battle eke with many a lowly word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far fr... ... fort and bastion doth review, For every need prepared in every street New regiments he placed and weapons new. The matrons grave within their temples... ...courage, young; for wisdom, old. 381 Torquato Tasso XXXIII When all these regiments were passed and gone, Appeared Armide, and came her troop to show... ... 9 “What would you more? each tree through all that w 308 When all these regiments were passed and gone, 381 “When all this camp in battle strong s...

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...nd I didn’t know where anybody was.” “In Russia! I thought you were with a Scottish family, and wrote to you to the care of some laird with an unearth... ...ames’s Indian and Crimean campaigns, and for the comparative merits of the regiments his nephew had beheld at reviews. He was interrupted by a message... ...le and difficulty to secure ourselves against contingencies, and profit by Scottish facilities.” Where- with Janet handed her mother a certificate of ... ...he viewed them all as utterly worthless compared with an honest English or Scottish degree. At any rate, she could not judge of their value, and they ... ...fe red, inasmuch as he was Lady Flora’s impecunious and not very reputable Scottish peer of a brother. That lady herself, in a pronounced bloomer, rep... ...et at the house of their relation. Listening in the way of duty to the old Scottish Countess’s profuse communications, she heard what ex- plained a go...

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...battle eke with many a lowly word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far fr... ... fort and bastion doth review, For every need prepared in every street New regiments he placed and weapons new. The matrons grave within their temples... ...courage, young; for wisdom, old. 381 Torquato Tasso XXXIII When all these regiments were passed and gone, Appeared Armide, and came her troop to show...

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... said I would board her and have a fly with half a dozen fellows round the Scottish isles. We’re never free to do as we like.’ ‘Legs are the only thin... ...ir. The wealthiest nobleman of all England stood on the pier, watching the regiments of that doomed expedition mount ship, ready with the bribe of the...

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... there is no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and ... ... the salute, almost half-way, ingenuously unlike the coming mothers of the regiments of marionettes, who retire in vapours, downcast, as by convention... ...upward, like a smoke-wreath. “Are you for Irish scenery?” “Irish, English, Scottish.” “All’s one so long as it’s beautiful: yes, you speak for me. Cos...

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...Look here,—this won’t do,” he has me by the collar, and there’s one of the regiments going to give a supper party, which he’s to order; or the Admiral... ... odd ques- tion, whether baronets or knights ever were tradesmen: to which Scottish Jenny, entirely putting aside the shades of be- 164 Evan Harringt...