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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... ...cut off and one of his nostrils slit, for calling bishops trumpery and the inventions of men. He originated on a Sunday morning the prosecution of Wi...

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...s in order to put the treasures he brought with him in safety. The strange inventions made for him secretly by the locksmiths of the town, the curious... ...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... ...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... ...rder—not without adding certain secret instructions—to a lieutenant of the Scottish guard to take a squad of men and accompany the ambassador to V eni...

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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 ... ...lowing, perched on a step-ladder and getting things to rights. He was always hovering round inventions like a bee over a flower, and lived in a dream ... ...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...

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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... ...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 ... ...tary, or at least for silent, inmates. Here it is that Mr. M’Callum, with a Shakespeare and a Burns, enjoys the society of the break- ers. His name an... ...ank rum behind a door. But there were others thoroughly consistent. I said the virtues of the race were bourgeois and puritan; and how bourgeois is th... ... South Seas, that which I saw in Butaritari stands easily the first. The Hula, as it may be viewed by the speedy globe-trotter in Honolulu, is surely ... ...uery, Reuben?—promoted on my last visit to the greater dignity of governor, is daily present, altering, extending, embel- lishing, pursuing the endles...

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... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish law- yers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefi... ...uld be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of note, being ... ...gling fiction with truth, I am polluting the well of his- tory with modern inventions, and impressing upon the rising generation false ideas of the ag...

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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... ... was not primarily organised for warfare hand to hand. Political and moral inventions he saw enough of and to spare, and in that direction he still st... ...nd it is certainly the fate of all Utopias to be more or less misread, the inventions contemplated were political devices. 65 H G Wells I believe, Ca... ...st and then that. *See that most suggestive little book, Twentieth Century Inventions, by Mr. George Sutherland. *Vide William Morris’s News from Nowh... ...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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...other men, without ever setting them to work upon their own force, had the inventions and opinions of others been ever been present with me by the ben... ...d do but ob- serve how large and ample Caesar is to make us understand his inventions of building bridges and contriving engines of war,—[De Bello Gal... ...ranny of the T riumvirate, had a thousand times by the subtlety of as many inventions escaped from falling into the hands of those that pursued him. I... ...ifference between them and me; and notwithstanding all that, suffer my own inventions, low and feeble as they are, to run on in their career, without ... ... has anything of a scholar in him, in an ordinary subject to do) under old inventions patched up here and there with his own trumpery, and then to end... ... Guerente, who wrote a comment upon Aristotle: George Buchanan, that great Scottish poet: and Marc Antoine Muret (whom both France and Italy have ackn...

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...with tales, and so had his father before him; but these were irrespon- sible inventions, told for the teller’s pleasure, with no eye to the crass publ... ...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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...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... ... should be obtained by merit, never bought and sold, and many of them were inventions of the Court for the express purpose of sale. The great Cardinal... ...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 ...

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...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter... ... the law technicalities. Well, these seemed to me always of the essence of the story, which is the story of a cause cele- bre; moreover, they are the ...

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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,”) ... ...f banks, of public carriages on an extensive scale, besides infinite other inventions or establishments not yet created—which sup- port and powerfully...

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... size, so that it seemed rather to fly than roll. The strangeness of these inventions puts this other fancy in my head: that it is a kind of pusillani... ...ontaigne ourselves of it. ’Tis not above a month ago that I read over, two Scottish authors contending upon this subject, of whom he who stands for th... ...on with the infinite diversity of human actions; the multiplication of our inventions will never arrive at the vari- ety of examples; add to these a h...

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...tural meetings, and comes home with his pockets crammed with papers of new inventions, which I leave him to try as long as he does not empty my pocket... ...th a very low bow, which was gracefully returned by a royal personage in a Scottish bonnet, also bearing the white cockade, a tartan scarf, and the bl...

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...kens 131 for the immense number of models it contains are the accumulated inventions of only five years; the whole of the previous collection having ... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ...

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...dull rebellion, of which Esther her- self did not know the cause. Like the Scottish sheep, she wanted to pasture in solitude, she could not conquer th... ...plendidly adorned for their love-festival by the most poetical of nature’s inventions, and crushed under the foot of a passer-by. But there is another... ...e. “Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.” “If Esther turns prudish, jus... ...e gentlemen whether Monsieur Sechard has a right or no to a patent for his inventions in paper-making?—If you mean to spend the night here—at the Bell... ...chained, in 1819 and 1820. Jacques Collin’s last escape, one of his finest inventions—for he had got out disguised as a gendarme leading Theodore Calv...

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...requently de- graded this jewel of the upper bourgeoisie by the habits and inventions of the lesser bourgeoisie. Look at those walnut chairs covered w... ...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ... ...g, papa Lantimeche, at six o’clock, and we’ll talk it over; you can’t talk inventions in public.” Cerizet then turned to Dutocq whose first words were... ... man of the dullest description, a savant, who has wasted his substance on inventions, so that I myself have had to feed and clothe him, persons have ...

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...awdon Crawley, that the mere truth was enough to condemn him, and that all inventions of scandal were quite superfluous pains on his friends’ parts. R... ...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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...f England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking ...

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...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...arates him further from the bulk of his compatriots. At an earlier age the Scottish lad begins his greatly different experience of crowded class-rooms... ...y gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless br... ... of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remar... ...rticularly to Thomas Stevenson from the great number and importance of his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Gove...

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... on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by a continual pro- cess of translation... ...teer, from the workshop or the mill, to undertake works which were at once inventions and adventures. It was not a science then – it was a living art;... ...o his years in class which will have a meaning for all who have studied in Scottish Universities. He mentions a recommendation made by the professor o... ...please or vex your mother. It is there- fore proper that you do not roamp [Scottish indeed] too much about, and that you learn your lessons.’ ‘I went ... ... is in comparison a habitable, homely place, well supplied with towns; the Scottish presents hundreds of miles of savage islands and desolate moors. T... ...e of affairs, only sixty years ago, with the three largest clusters of the Scottish Archipelago; and forty-seven years earlier, when Thomas Smith bega...

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... parthenogenetic birth, and the more incred- ible miracles are rejected as inventions; and such episodes as the conversation with the devil are classe... ...ven the tight little island which was the nucleus of the em- pire by their Scottish logic and theological dogma; and it may be sustained very plausibl...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ...he greatness and importance of its merchants and manufac turers; upon its inventions, which are constantly in progress; upon the skill and intelligen... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m...

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..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...re objects and luxuries and slaves. With trade came writing and money; the inventions of debt and rent, 75 H. G . Wells usury and tribute. History fi... ...e found to linger just in proportion as a trade has remained unaffected by inventions and innovation. The building trade, for example, is a fairly con...

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...ought; a paladin’s eyes seemed to sparkle yet under the visor. This sea of inventions, fashions, furniture, works of art and fiascos, made for him a p... ...ench centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or... ...acques Rousseau, in whose room perhaps I was lodging; nor among the feeble inventions of two centuries of our literature, nor in any pic- ture that It...

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... as a gorge in Peru, a haunt of German robbers, and a peaceful vale in the Scottish borders. There is a sad absence of strik- ing argument or real liv... ...e supernatural his pencil grows more daring and incisive. He has many true inventions in the perilous and diabolic; he has many star- tling nightmares...

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...ed out of the village, and he told her some of his hopes. They referred to inventions of destructive weap- ons, which were primarily to place his coun... ...ing it out like a deliberate oath. He and his uncle were associated in the inventions. They had an improved rocket that would force military chiefs to... ...l. Her letter was a call in the night. Besides, there were his yet untried Inventions. The new gunpowder testing at Croridge promised to provide Henri... ... 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...

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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... ...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... ...d venture on some extras. “Babie might earn it for herself; she is full of inventions.” “There is nothing more strongly impressed on me than that thos...

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...rs go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the Unite... ... these very Gifford lectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish reli- gious philosophers.[52] [52] The Cairds, for example. In Edw... ...o previous model. In Chicago to-day we have the case of Dr. J. A. Dowie, a Scottish Baptist preacher, whose weekly “Leaves of Healing” were in the yea... ...e sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions. We are interested in certain types of arrangement, useful, aest... ...cted with his conduct. It seems to me to be the chief glory of English and Scottish thinkers to have kept the organic connection in view. The guid- in... ...ose of this new logic. Let me quote in illustration some passages from the Scottish transcendentalist whom I have already named. “How are we to concei...

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... HenryDavidThoreau founded by many knowledges, and has not sought out many inventions, but how to take many fishes before the sun sets, with his slend... ...pears that they are not Books or Bibles at all. There are new and patented inventions in this shape, purporting to be for the elevation of the race, w... ... In the Saxon poetry extant, in the earliest English, and the contemporary Scottish poetry, there is less to remind the reader of the rudeness and vig...

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... he afterwards married, and Mr. Taylor, who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions, and his success in trade, acquired an immense fortune. But the ... ...Tom being thus suddenly dragged into ludicrous notice in pres- ence of the Scottish Doctors, to whom he was ambitious of appearing to advantage, was g... ...they come to it; and certainly, a man who con- quers nineteen parts of the Scottish accent, may conquer the twentieth. But, Sir, when a man has got th... ...mith at General Paoli’s. I spoke of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only...

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...elf from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed the Parliament. ... ...ought in cards, not to play, but to learn a thousand pretty tricks and new inventions, which were all grounded upon arithmetic. By this means he fell ... ...f hypocrites and false prophets, who by human con- stitutions and depraved inventions have empoisoned all the world, shall be quite exterminated from ... ...icers are then held in greater request than the afforders of refrigerating inventions, makers of jun- kets, fit disposers of cooling shades, composers...