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His noble friend, Lord Elibank, well observed, that if a great man procured an interview with Johnson, and did not wish to see him more, it shewed a mere idle curiosity, and a wretched want of relish for extraordinary powers of mind . Mrs.
Peter Murray, son of the clever Lord Elibank, called and sat half-an-hour an old friend, and who, from the peculiarity and originality of his genius, is one of the most entertaining companions I have ever known. But I must finish Malachi. February 27. Malachi is getting on; I must finish him to-night.
Asaph: poets like Collins and Young: historians and divines like Robertson and Hugh Blair: philosophers and men of science like Adam Smith and Sir Joseph Banks: with a certain number of intelligent peers like Lord Orrery the friend of Swift, Lord Marchmont the friend of Pope, and Lord Elibank whom Smollett praised for his "universal intelligence" and who said, when he was already seventy, that he would go five hundred miles to enjoy a day in Johnson's company; besides public men like Lord Charlemont the Irish statesman and traveller who once went to visit Montesquieu, and Lord Macartney who had gone as ambassador to Russia and was soon to go in the same position to Pekin.
Now, there is our natural and lawful adversary, auld Sir Gideon Murray o' Elibank, carries his head as high as though he were first cousin to a king, or the sole lord o' Ettrick Forest.
Fingal being talked of, Dr Johnson, who used to boast that he had, from the first, resisted both Ossian and the giants of Patagonia, averred his positive disbelief of its authenticity. Lord Elibank said, 'I am sure it is not McPherson's. Mr Johnson, I keep company a great deal with you; it is known I do.
The night we rode to Col's house, I said, 'Lord Elibank is probably wondering what is become of us. JOHNSON. 'No, no; he is not thinking of us. BOSWELL. 'But recollect the warmth with which he wrote . Are we not to believe a man, when he says he has a great desire to see another?
The Elibank plot George II. to be kidnapped Murray and Young Glengarry As Pickle, Glengarry betrays the plot His revelations Pickle and Lord Elibank Pickle meets Charles Charles has been in Berlin Glengarry writes to James's secretary Regrets failure of plot Speaks of his illness Laments for Archy Cameron Hanbury Williams seeks Charles in Silesia Pickle's 'fit of sickness' His dealings with the Earl Marischal Meets the Prince at the masked ball 'A little piqued' Marischal criticises the plot to kidnap George II. 'A night attack' Other schemes Charles's poverty 'The prophet's clothes' Mr.
'I dare say you are by this time sensible that things are pretty much the same, as when Buchanan complained of being born solo et seculo inerudito. Let me hear of you, and be persuaded that none of your admirers is more sincerely devoted to you, than, Dear Sir, Your most obedient, And most humble servant, 'ELIBANK. Dr. Johnson, on the following Tuesday, answered for both of us, thus:
Sir Gideon Murray, therefore, recovered all that had been taken from him; and though he had captured but two prisoners, the one was the chief, and the other his principal adviser and second in command. The old knight, therefore, commanded that they should be bound with cords together, and in such rueful plight led to his castle at Elibank.
Goring met 'the Lady' at Lens: she was indignant at the dismissal of 'the little Frenchman, merely because he was no Englishman. Indeed, it is by no means absolutely certain that the errand which Goring considered so dishonourable was connected with Miss Walkinshaw alone. The Elibank plot must have been maturing, though no light is thrown on it by the papers of the summer of 1752.
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