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THE SCOTTISH REVIEW . 47539 JANUARY AND APRIL , 1894 . VOL . XXIII . ALEXANDER GARDNER , Publisher to Her Majesty the Queen , PAISLEY ; AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE , LONDON . MDCCCXCIV . INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII . .193 , 404 ... 199.
THE SCOTTISH REVIEW . 47539 JANUARY AND APRIL , 1894 . VOL . XXIII . ALEXANDER GARDNER , Publisher to Her Majesty the Queen , PAISLEY ; AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE , LONDON . MDCCCXCIV . INDEX TO VOLUME XXIII . .193 , 404 ... 199.
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... queen bee in the University is now always to be kept moderately fat . Much may be said for both plans . The small endowment plan would certainly in many cases be an enormous blessing , and an incentive too , to young and able men of an ...
... queen bee in the University is now always to be kept moderately fat . Much may be said for both plans . The small endowment plan would certainly in many cases be an enormous blessing , and an incentive too , to young and able men of an ...
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... Queen ; but he performed the duties of his office well , and he was judicious and wise in opposing steadily the fanaticism of an over zealous bishop , who tried to proselytize at the hazard of a religious war . Fortune up to Marshal ...
... Queen ; but he performed the duties of his office well , and he was judicious and wise in opposing steadily the fanaticism of an over zealous bishop , who tried to proselytize at the hazard of a religious war . Fortune up to Marshal ...
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... popular literature immediately antecedent to the advent of Knox and Queen Mary , well fitted to throw light on that Presbyterian movement which has so deeply affected the spiritual , 90 The Complaynt of Scotlande . ' "
... popular literature immediately antecedent to the advent of Knox and Queen Mary , well fitted to throw light on that Presbyterian movement which has so deeply affected the spiritual , 90 The Complaynt of Scotlande . ' "
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... Queen from Langside ( 1568 ) . The death at Flodden of the thoughtless gamester , James IV . , the Scottish Cour - de - Lion , left the throne nominally to Queen Margaret and her infant son , but really to the Douglases as the sturdiest ...
... Queen from Langside ( 1568 ) . The death at Flodden of the thoughtless gamester , James IV . , the Scottish Cour - de - Lion , left the throne nominally to Queen Margaret and her infant son , but really to the Douglases as the sturdiest ...
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Page 247 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
Page 174 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 167 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and uf in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things; and we by him.
Page 174 - Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.
Page 236 - In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by the hopes and fears of a gambler; perpetually sacrificing the perfection of his compositions, and the durability of his fame, to his eagerness for money...
Page 230 - I did so fast, that the last two volumes were written in three weeks. I had a great deal of fun in the accomplishment of this task, though I do not expect that it will be popular in the south, as much of the humor, if there be any, is local, and some of it even professional.
Page 237 - received several excuses, and the party was a small one ; " and, knowing all the people present, I was satisfied that " the writer of that novel must have been, and could have " been, no other than Walter Scott. " He spoiled the fame of his poetry by his superior " prose. He has such extent and versatility of powers in " writing, that, should his Novels ever tire the public, " which is not likely, he will apply himself to something " else, and succeed as well. " His mottoes from old plays prove...
Page 245 - And if they take my salaries of £1300 and £300, they cannot but give me something out of them. I have been rash in anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my temptation.
Page 118 - When I was a boy just turn'd of nine, My uncle sent for me, To hunt, and hawk, and ride with him, And keep him companie.
Page 230 - It was a very old attempt of mine to embody some traits of those characters and manners peculiar to Scotland, the last remnants of which vanished during my own youth, so that few or no traces now remain.