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In 1839, however, a partial reward for his anxieties and toils came in the shape of an appointment to the Chair of Anatomy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, a situation which he had filled for three years, when he was recalled to the University of his native city to take the place of the late venerable and widely-venerated Professor Alison. The year which saw Dr.
"Some of our ministers were present," he says, "standing upon their feet ready to have answered in case any would have defended the Papistrie and impugned our affirmations." But no one of all the ecclesiastics present said a word. The Earl Marischal, when he rose in his turn to vote, commented upon this remarkable abstinence with the straightforwardness of a practical man.
On May 7 the garrison of Leith defeated with heavy loss an Anglo- Scottish attack on the walls; but on June 16 the Regent made a good end, in peace with all men. She saw Chatelherault, James Stewart, and the Earl Marischal; she listened patiently to the preacher Willock; she bade farewell to all, and died, a notable woman, crushed by an impossible task.
But the English diplomatists appear to have neglected Luneville. D'Argenson was better informed. On April 26 Charles was at Strasbourg. Here, D'Argenson says, he was seen, and warned to go, by an ecuyer of the late Cardinal Rohan. Hence he wrote again to the Earl Marischal at Berlin. He again proposes a meeting with the Earl Marischal at Venice.
Physician and writer on mental science, s. of a minister, was b. at Aberdeen, and ed. at the Grammar School and Marischal College there. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, in which city he practised as a physician.
S. J. H-a-r-t-n aquenting them of the disappointment in England, stopt further proceedings, so they return'd back to Boulogne. Pickle went streight from Boulogne to Paris, where he was very intimate with Ld. Marischal; few days past but Pickle was at his lodgings or M-r-l- at Pickle's. Ld.
"May, 1758, Maupertuis left Toulouse: turned towards Berlin; slow, sad, circuitous; never to arrive. Saw Narbonne, Montpellier, Nimes; with what meditations! At Lyons, under honors sky-high, health getting worse, stays two months; vomits clots of blood there. Thence, July 24th, to Neufchatel and the Lord Marischal; happy there for three months.
Glencairn and the Earl Marischal, in the circumstances, advised Knox to write a letter to Mary of Guise, "something that might move her to hear the Word of God," that is, to hear Knox preach. This letter, as it then stood, was printed in a little black-letter volume, probably of 1556. Knox addresses the Regent and Queen Mother as "her humble subject."
Sir Robert Keith, the Marischal, was in charge of a small body of cavalry, which did good service by driving back, at a critical moment, such archers as made their way through the forest. The English army was in ten divisions, but the limited area in which they had to fight interfered with their arrangement.
Hopes from Prussia The Murrays of Elibank Imprisonment of Alexander Murray Recommended to Charles The Elibank plot Prussia and the Earl Marischal His early history Ambassador of Frederick at Versailles His odd household Voltaire The Duke of Newcastle's resentment Charles's view of Frederick's policy His alleged avarice Lady Montagu His money-box Goring and the Earl Marischal Secret meetings The lace shop Albemarle's information Charles at Ghent Hanbury Williams's mares' nests Charles and 'La Grandemain' She and Goring refuse to take his orders Appearance of Miss Walkinshaw Her history Remonstrances of Goring 'Commissions for the worst of men' 'The little man' Lady Primrose Death of Mademoiselle Luci November 10, date of postponed Elibank plot Danger of dismissing an agent.
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