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...f the skirmish at Clifton is extracted from the manuscript Memoirs of Evan Macpherson of Cluny, chief of the clan Macpherson who had the merit of supp... ...luny, and fought sword in hand on foot, at the head of the single tribe of Macphersons. They in a moment made their way through a strong hedge of thor...

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...priate distribu- tion of the Rattlers, the Robys, the Fitzgibbons, and the Macphersons among the subordinate offices of State. Mr 59 Anthony Trollope... ...acphersons among the subordinate offices of State. Mr 59 Anthony Trollope Macpherson and Mr Roby, with a host of others who had belonged to Mr Daubne... ...men too, which is worse? Do you think that I love old Lady Ramsden, or Mrs MacPherson? He used to be so fond of Lord Cantrip.’ ‘I think he likes Lord ...

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...sight, the Water Kelpie,—each of these I have found to be a killing bait; the black bull’s head of Stirling procured me the leg- end of Rahero; and wh...

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...property. Your share of Fulbert’s has never been taken out, I think?” “No, Macpherson, the purchaser, you know, of Fulbert’s share, pays me my amount ... ...he value is quite what it used to be. It rather went down under Field; but Macpherson is all there, and it has been a better season. I could sell it a...

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...t- sentries, till they can get word to the chief of my arrival.” Now Cluny Macpherson, the chief of the clan Vourich, had been one of the leaders of t... ...s he. “What kind of Whiggish, canting talk is this, for the house of Cluny Macpherson?” *Condiment. 144 Kidnapped “I will put my hand in the fire for...

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...re in the same language; but we subjoin a translation of them, by Secundus Macpherson, Esq. of Glenforgen, which, although submitted to the fetters of... ...Fraser’s T reatise on the Second Sight, Relations x. and xvii.):— “Barbara Macpherson, relict of the deceased Mr. Alexander MacLeod, late minister of ...

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...ause I begged her, for the chance of her living. It’s my doing—this knife! Macpherson swears there is a chance. Thomson backs him. But they’re at her,... ...e upon the report of the triumph of surgical skill achieved by Sir William Macpherson and Mr. Lanyan Thomson, was one from Lady Wathin, dated Adlands,...

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...old of a famous freebooter, that he composed the tune known by the name of Macpherson’s Rant while under sen- tence of death, and played it at the gal...

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...ked at several studios before Amitrano’s, at Julian’s, the Beaux Arts, and MacPherson’s, and was re- maining longer at Amitrano’s than anywhere becaus...

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... At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr. James Macpherson, as translations of Ossian, was at its height. Johnson had all a... .... 66.]— ‘MR. BOSWELL TO DR. JOHNSON. ‘Edinburgh, Feb. 2,1775. ‘. . . As to Macpherson,’ I am anxious to have from yourself a full and pointed account ... ...who had not acted as a man of veracity.’ . . . What words were used by Mr. Macpherson in his letter to the venerable Sage, I have never heard; but the... ...a note in his own handwriting, ‘This, I think, is a true copy.’ ‘MR. JAMES MACPHERSON,—I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence of- f... ...what you shall prove. You may print this if you will.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ Mr. Macpherson little knew the character of Dr. Johnson, if he supposed that he... ...Foote of this, which effectually checked the wantonness of the mimick. Mr. Macpherson’s menaces made Johnson provide himself with the same implement o...

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...rtain to bring to the hearts of the masses,—a feeling analogous to that of Macpherson when the name of his creation Ossian was transcribed into all la...

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...ain, in estimating the merit of certain poems, whether they be Ossian’s or Macpherson’s can surely be of little con- sequence, yet, in order to prove ...