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If we help Angus, we mustn't kill him at the same time by hurting his Highland pride." Lawyer Ed whacked a sofa cushion impatiently with his cane. "There it is, of course! Hang Scotchmen, anyway! You can't treat them like human beings. That abominable thing they call their pride always clogs your wheels whichever way you go."
Without directly inquiring why she let her eyes linger solicitously on his face. "Who has called?" he absently asked. "Any folk for me?" "No," said Lucetta. "What's the matter, Donald?" "Well nothing worth talking of," he responded sadly. "Then, never mind it. You will get through it, Scotchmen are always lucky."
In short, the point of a great number of its best jokes is made by bringing different social strata into sharp comparison. The peculiarities of Irishmen and Scotchmen also furnish rich materials to the caricaturist. He never tires of illustrating the blunders and impudence of the one and the hot patriotism and niggardliness of the other.
He became possessed with the same ideas as other landlords of the period, whose income had diminished through the visitation of God, that if the present possessors were rooted out and depopulated lands planted with Scotchmen, their skill and capital would prevent a recurrence of famine.
Thomas Young, the Puritan minister, of Stowmarket, Suffolk. It is generally claimed for Young that he was an East Anglian. Professor Masson has, however, settled the question that he was a Scotchman, of the University of Aberdeen. Be that as it may, like most Scotchmen, he made his way to England, and was employed by Mr. Milton, the scrivener of Bread Street, to teach his gifted son.
Many unsatisfactory assassins had presented themselves from time to time, and Alexander had paid money in hand to various individuals Italians, Spaniards, Lorrainers; Scotchmen, Englishmen, who had generally spent the sums received without attempting the job.
"'Tis, at least, a chivalrous and princely act!" exclaimed Admiral Bluewater. "Yes inasmuch as it is a heedless and mad one. England is not to be conquered by a rabble of half-dressed Scotchmen." "True; but England may be conquered by England, notwithstanding."
So you had best make up your mind to go away with the damned Scotchmen when they come, though I hope that you will think kindly of us when you get to your own country. Yes, yes, you shall go, and what is more, you may take my best horse to ride away on, the thoroughbred schimmel, and my new black felt hat that I bought in the dorp.
There the grave responsible Lord of Session, sober in mien as Scotchmen are wont to be, sat at midnight and roared over his claret in the mad orgies of the Hell-fire Club; here the pawky, penetrating lawyer, shrewd both from calling and character, played the reckless game of a correspondence with the stage Court of St.
Across this era, three mighty giants cast their shadows Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. Closely and curiously intertwined were the destinies of these three men, Clay was born in 1777; Webster and Calhoun five years later. Calhoun and Clay were Irishmen and hated England; Webster was a Scotchman, and Scotchmen were usually Tories.
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