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" Auchinleck was an able lawyer, a good scholar, after the manner of Scotland, and highly valued his own advantages as a man of good estate and ancient family, and, moreover, he was a strict presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent... "
The Contemporaries of Burns, and the More Recent Poets of Ayrshire, with ... - Page 306
by Robert Burns, James Paterson - 1840 - 440 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...presbyterian and Whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...and the character of the personages of whom he was engout' one after another. ' There's nae hope for Jamie, mon,' he said to a friend. ' Jamie is gaen...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...and the character of the personages of whom he was eugoue one after another. " There's nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. " Jamie is gaen...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...and the character of the personages of whom he was engottf one after another. " There 's nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. "Jamie is gaen...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 101

English essays - 1831 - 722 pages
...being a terribly proud aristocrat; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed for hi* son James, for the nature of his friendships and the character of the personages of whom he was fngoue ono after another. ' There's nae hope for Jamie, m«n,' he said to a friend ; ' Jamie is gaen...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...engoue one after another. " There's nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. "Jamie is gaen clean gyte.— What do you think, mon? He's done wi' Paoli—...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 654 pages
...presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...and the character of the personages of whom he was cngotia one after another. " There's nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. " Jamie is gaen...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...presbyterian and Whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat ; and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...engoue one after another. " There's nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. " Jamie is gaen clean gyte. — What do you think, mon? He's done wi' Paoli...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...presbyterian and Whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat, and great was the contempt he entertained and expressed...personages of whom he was engoue one after another. " There*s nae hope for Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. " Jamie is gaen clean gyte.—What do you...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...presbyterian and whig of the old Scottish cast. This did not prevent his being a terribly proud aristocrat; mp of words than the occasion demanded : " London, Jan. 5, 1759. Jarnea, for the nature of his friendships and the character of the personages of whom he was ,ngmtf...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 pages
...was the. contempt he entertained and expressed for his son James, for the, nature of his friendship, and the character of the personages of whom he was...engoue one after another. ' There's nae hope for Jamie, mon,' he said to a friend. ' Jamie is gane clean gyte. What do you think, mon? He's done wi' Paoli—he's...
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