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Against this garbling of my report done by the President's own order I strongly demurred; and this emphatic protest marks the beginning of Mr. Johnson's well-known personal hostility toward me. "MAJOR-GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, "Commanding Mil. Div. of the Gulf, "New Orleans, La.
'Ye are very guid to tak' sae muckle thocht aboot me, and if it'll relieve yer mind, ye can believe that whatever I'm aboot, it's honest wark, and that if I need anything, I'll come to you. 'You mean that, Liz? 'Yes, I mean it; an' if I div say a thing I dinna gang back frae it, she said, and again his mind was relieved.
We've cleared awa the snow at the back for the prayer; ye 'ill get in at the kitchen door. "There's a puckle Dunleith men " "Wha?" cried Jamie in an instant. "Dunleith men," said Drumsheugh. "Div ye mean they're here, whar are they?" "Drying themsels at the fire, an' no withoot need; ane of them gied ower the head in a drift, and his neeburs hed tae pu' him oot.
Ma ain girlie, wee Kirsty, she likit them fine, but I forbade her. This was the way it cam aboot div ye mind the year o' the Exposeetion in Paris? Weel, me an' Kirsty's mither took a jaunt an' gaed till't. We was ower three weeks amang thae foreign fowk, wi' nae parritch an' nae psalm. We gaed frae Paris to the auld hame in Ettrick, an' 'twas like gae'n to Abraham's bosom frae the ither place.
In further illustration of the wisdom of these temple contrivances, it may be mentioned that, by marks placed upon the materials which had been thus prepared at a distance, the individual production of every craftsman was easily ascertained, and the means were provided of rewarding merit and punishing indolence. This secret-worship was termed the Mysteries." WARBURTON, Div. Leg. I. i. p. 189.
'I kenna what ever she or I wud hae dune wantin ye! 'And ye think mebbe she'll be some the better, some way or ither, for 't? 'Ay, I div think that, Steenie. But to tell the trowth, I'm no sure she'll think verra aft aboot what ye did for her! 'Ow, na! What for sud she? There's no need for that! It was for hersel, no for her think-aboot-it, I tried.
"It took them a gude fower oors tae get across, an' it wes coorse wark; they likit him weel doon that wy, an', Jamie, man" here Drumsheugh's voice changed its note, and his public manner disappeared "what div ye think o' this? every man o' them has on his blacks." "It's mair than cud be expeckit" said Jamie; "but whar dae yon men come frae, Drumsheugh?"
For original authorities in reference to the matter of this chapter, read Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers; the Writings of Plato and Aristotle; Cicero, De Nat., De Or., De Offic., De Div., De Fin., Tusc. Quaest.; Xenophon, Memorabilia; Boethius, De Idea Hist. Phil.; Lucretius. The great modern authorities are the Germans, and these are very numerous.
'Div me dat bun, said the little girl, 'me vely hungy. 'Hungry! what is that? asked Princess Angelica, and gave the child the bun. 'Oh, Princess! says Mrs. Gruffanuff, 'how good, how kind, how truly angelical you are! See, Your Majesties, she said to the King and Queen, who now came up, along with their nephew, Prince Giglio, 'how kind the Princess is!
"Richard," said she, thoughtfully, "I wish ye may no hae been getting in voolgar company. Div ye think we hae minds like rinning water?" "And tongues like the mill-clack abune it? Because if ye think sae, captain ye're no far wrang!" Christie. "Na! we hae na muckle gowd maybe; but our minds are gowden vessels." Jean. "Aha! lad." Christie.
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