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...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici... ... colored pins, on the fields of battle, designate more than battle lines, regiments, infantry, artillery, cavalry, fortifications...those pins are me... ...HE PAST 590 Minnesota men—defeated, defeated at Bull Run. The broken regiments strug- gled all along Pennsylvania Avenue. Victims of panic—defea...

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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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...he poor had their heroes like Dick Turpin. The rich had their constables and regiments and police. And left the poor to rot. Except… if the poor t... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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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...