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On the other hand he is often artificial, extravagant, and turgid, and his ultimate literary position is difficult to forecast. Lives by Froude , Hitchman , see also Dictionary of Nat. Biog. etc. Poet and philosophical writer, s. of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and ed. at Aberdeen; he was, in 1760, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy there.
The hero was the first Quaker of that Barclay family which produced the apologist and the pugilist. He was a colonel in the great civil wars, and had seen wild work in his day; but in his old age a change came over him, and, becoming a follower of George Fox, he retired to spend his latter days on his ancestral estate in Kincardineshire.
Her father had acquired a large fortune in India, and returned home to the large estates in Kincardineshire which he had purchased. The little girl had soon to experience the greatest loss that can befall a child. When she was only six years old her mother died, leaving her alone with her father.
Historian, b. in Kincardineshire, belonged to the family of the Earls Marischal, and was Bishop of Fife in the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was deeply versed in Scottish antiquities, and pub. History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland during the Reformation. He also compiled A Catalogue of the Bishops of Scotland .
"Indeed?" said Sir Henry, "this must be a forward chick of the game, to crow so early. What is his name?" "His name? it escapes me every hour, it is so hard a one," said Albert "Kerneguy is his name Louis Kerneguy; his father was Lord Killstewers, of Kincardineshire." "Kerneguy, and Killstewers, and Kin what d'ye call it?
Robert Pierce Gillies, once proprietor of a good estate in Kincardineshire, and member of the Scotch Bar. It is pleasant to find Mr. Gillies expressing his gratitude for what Sir Walter had done for him more than twenty-five years after this paragraph was written. "He was," says R.P.G., "not only among the earliest but most persevering of my friends persevering in spite of my waywardness." Mr.
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