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But, worse and worse for Baillie's feelings, not only did it appear that the victory had been gained by the English of the joint army rather than by the Scottish contingent, but gradually the rumour was confirmed, which had been first borne to London on the wings of the wind, that the Englishman by whose conduct, if by that of any one man, the fate of the battle had been decided, was Lieutenant-general Cromwell.
"The bad character of the white servants is a reason assigned by many settlers for keeping the natives from their stations. At a few establishments, viz. Norman M'Leod's, Baillie's, Campbell's, Lenton's, and Urquhart's, an amicable and friendly relation has been maintained for several years; the Aborigines are employed and found useful.
Baillie declares to be an enlightened man, and perfectly sincere in his convictions, brought his own medicines from the pharmacy which furnished Hahnemann himself, and employed them for four or five months upon patients in his ward, and with results equally unsatisfactory, as appears from Dr. Baillie's statement at a meeting of the Academy of Medicine.
His conduct towards her was something like that of Ethwald to Elburga, in Joanna Baillie's fine tragedy , making her postpone her high rank by birth to the authority which he had acquired by his talents. Dinner was usually announced for a particular hour, and Napoleon's business often made him late. She was not permitted to sit down to table, an etiquette which was reasonable enough.
Visits in England Wycombe Abbey: Lord Carrington, Madame de Stael, and Buonaparte David Ricardo Bowood: Lord Lansdowne, Bowles Miss Joanna Baillie's: Brodie, Dr. Holland, Lord Grenville Anecdotes of Lady Salisbury and Wilberforce Le Bas, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont. Letters from London to Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton. Life in London Frank Lady Lansdowne, Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, Calcott, Mrs.
As we trace James Guthrie's passionate footsteps for the years to come through Principal Baillie's sufficiently gossiping, but not unshrewd, pages, we soon see that he is travelling fast and sure toward the Nether Bow.
He had been well instructed by Baillie as to all the particulars of the duty so expected from him, not the least of which, in Baillie's judgment, was that he should get the King to dismiss Hobbes from the tutorship of the Prince at Paris. Once with the King, however, Murray had forgotten Baillie's lectures, and relapsed into his wily self.
Mill, in his History of British India, has noticed how closely the classification of the Mahometan approaches to that of the Roman jurists. An attentive perusal of Mr. Baillie's volume has convinced us that the analogy in the substance is quite as strong as in the arrangements. This fact seems susceptible of being accounted for on historical grounds.
Spring Rice told us that Mr. Abercromby, who had met him at Joanna Baillie's, told him he was one of the finest and most promising boys he had ever seen. Do, for heaven's sake, some good soul or body, write forthwith to Black Castle, and learn whether Aunt Ruxton likes the gown I sent her gray cloth. If not, I will get her another. FROGNEL, HAMPSTEAD, June 3.
In both publications, but especially in the former, we see Baillie's characteristic merits. The information from these and other sources may be summed up, from the Presbyterian point of view, under two headings, as follows: I. MISCELLANEOUS BLASPHEMIES AND ENTHUSIASMS. The very air of England, it seemed, was full of such.
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