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The uncommon vivacity of General Oglethorpe's mind, and variety of knowledge, having sometimes made his conversation seem too desultory, Johnson observed, 'Oglethorpe, Sir, never completes what he has to say. He on the same account made a similar remark on Patrick Lord Elibank: 'Sir, there is nothing conclusive in his talk.
Stay till we meet Lord Elibank. We had at last a good dinner, or rather supper, and were very well satisfied with our entertainment. Col called me up, with intelligence that it was a good day for a passage to Mull; and just as we rose, a sailor from the vessel arrived for us. We got all ready with dispatch. Dr. Johnson was displeased at my bustling, and walking quickly up and down.
Hurra! the moon glents ower the hills to guide us to the spoils o' Elibank! To-night we shall bring langsyne back again." There were twenty of them, stout and bold men, mounted upon light and active horses some armed with firelocks, and others with Jeddart staves; while, in addition to such weapons, every man had a good sword by his side.
It was necessary to ask questions and make no assertion. If you said two and two make four, he would say, 'How will you prove that, Sir? Dr. Burney seemed amiably sensitive to every unfavourable remark on his old friend. Patrick Lord Elibank, who died in 1778. BOSWELL. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 12, 1773. Yet he said of him: 'Sir, there is nothing conclusive in his talk. See post, p. 57.
Crowle, who had acted as counsel for sir George Vandeput, by the honourable Alexander Murray, brother to lord Elibank, and one Gibson, an upholsterer, who had been very active, zealous, and turbulent in his endeavours to promote the interest of sir George Vandeput, or rather to thwart the pretensions of the other candidate, who was supposed to be countenanced by the ministry.
I am, My dear Boswell, Your sincerely Obedient humble servant, 'ELIBANK. 'August 21st, 1773. The letter to Dr. Johnson was in these words: 'I was to have kissed your hands at Edinburgh, the moment I heard of you; but you was gone. 'I hope my friend Boswell will inform me of your motions. It will be cruel to deprive me an instant of the honour of attending you.
Mr Nairne came in, and he and I accompanied Dr Johnson to Edinburgh castle, which he owned was 'a great place'. But I must mention, as a striking instance of that spirit of contradiction to which he had a strong propensity, when Lord Elibank was some days after talking of it with the natural elation of a Scotchman, or of any man who is proud of a stately fortress in his own country, Dr Johnson affected to despise it, observing that, 'it would make a good PRISON in ENGLAND'.
Look ye, sir I am Scott o' Harden, and ye are Murray o' Elibank; there is no love lost between us; chance has placed my life in your hands take it, for I wouldna marry your daughter though ye should gie me life, and a' the lands o' Elibank into the bargain.
Lord Cromartie was receiver of the rents of the King's second son in Scotland, which, it was understood, he should not account for; and by that means had six-hundred a-year from the Government: Lord Elibank, a very prating, impertinent Jacobite, was bound for him in nine thousand pounds, for which the Duke is determined to sue him.
When Lord Elibank was seventy years old, he wrote: 'I shall be glad to go five hundred miles to enjoy a day of his company. Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 12. Romans, x. 2. I Peter, iii. 15. Horace Walpole wrote three years earlier: Whig principles are founded on sense; a Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so. Letters, vii. 88. Mr.
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