| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1910 - 280 pages
...everything Scottish, or Scotch as he would have spelt it, in his famous Dictionary defined oats as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Probably this was " wrote sarkastic," though it was, after all, only partially correct; it awoke, however,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 pages
...Sir, old Mr. Sheridan has found out a very good reason! '" The definition of oats referred to was: "A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." 12 9. The opposition. The party in Parliament opposed to the Ministry. 12 14. That noble poem in which... | |
| Frank Humphreys Storer - Agricultural chemistry - 1897 - 700 pages
...are generally substituted for it. Hence the definition of oats given by the great lexicographer : " A grain, which in England is generally given to horses; but in Scotland supports the people." One reason why wheat does not succeed well in these localities is the great vigor of the grasses in... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides - 1898 - 442 pages
...shun." — Francis. 198. Hit joke on the article of oats. The definition of oats in his Dictionary: "A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." 300. Leandro Alberts s Description of Italy. See Life, iii. 206. 301. Aforeri's Dictionary. The Grand... | |
| James Edwin Creighton - Logic - 1898 - 418 pages
...structure and function, through successive differentiations and integrations (Spencer). (n) Oats is a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. 7. Give examples of terms which are indefinable, and explain why this is the case. What is the distinction... | |
| William Andrews - American literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. — Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but which in Scotland supports the people." Sir Walter Scott related the happy retort by Lord Elibank,... | |
| Reuen Thomas - Authors, American - 1899 - 322 pages
...capitals, — an educated John Bull, — not immediately likable, but companionable, inimitable. ' Oats, — a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people ' — who could express his aversion like that except Dr. Johnson ? " I thought Ismene, who had her... | |
| William Edward Simonds - English literature - 1902 - 510 pages
...understood to mean pay given to a state hireling fortreason to his country." Oats he described as "» grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." These eccentric lapses of his genius were due in some degree to the embarrassments of his struggle... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 pages
...Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distance with interstices between the intersections. ' ' Oats : A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. ' ' Pensioner : A slave of State hired by a stipend to obey his master." His dictionary was the result... | |
| Robert Wallace - 1903 - 662 pages
...wastefulness, and paid so high a compliment to Scotch economy, by the famous definition of oats as " a grain, which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people," we find him defining cant as " a corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds," as " a particuliar... | |
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