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Spottiswoode had no inclination to contradict his wife for contradiction's sake, and as he could rely on her prudence as on her other good qualities, he said, "Well, Agnes, I have no objection; Hunter of Blackfaulds is an honest man though he is poor, and he is righting himself now." The invitations were dispatched, and accepted gratefully.
London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row. 1819. None of Wordsworth's productions are better known by name than Peter Bell, and yet few, probably, are less familiar, even to convinced Wordsworthians.
Such, Madam, are the vicissitudes of things. Piozzi Letters, i. 325. See ante, March 20, 1776. If he had said this on a former occasion to a lady, he said it also on a latter occasion to a gentleman Mr. Spottiswoode. Post, April 28, 1778. Thrale said, "I wonder, Sir, you never went to see Mrs. Rudd among the rest."
V O. KLUCHEFFSKY. A History of Russia. 3 vols. 1913. Dent. 7s. 6d. net each. The standard economic and social history of Russia up to the reign of Peter the Great. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 10s. 6d. net. Excellent for facts and figures. E. SÉMÉNOFF. The Russian Government and the Massacres. 1907. 2s. 6d. net. An account of the pogroms in Russia from the Jewish point of view.
They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family worship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, or the Tract Society; but in most other points they are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they are not yet clear of the patriarchal.
It may be urged that here Spottiswoode had the support of the reminiscences of his father, a Superintendent in the Knoxian church. In the writer's opinion several of Knox's accusations of perfidy against the Regent, in 1559, are not proved, and the attempts to prove them are of a nature which need not be qualified.
The Devil was impatient of subordination; he was the first who resisted power: "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven ." At General Paoli's were Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Langton, Marchese Gherardi of Lombardy, and Mr. John Spottiswoode the younger, of Spottiswoode , the solicitor. At this time fears of an invasion were circulated; to obviate which, Mr. Spottiswoode observed, that Mr.
Letter IV, as Sprot confessed, is certainly the model of all the letters which he forged, whether those produced or those suppressed. On July 16, Sprot was again examined. Spottiswoode, Archbishop of Glasgow, the historian, was present, on this occasion only, with Dunfermline, Dunbar, Sir Thomas Hamilton, Hart, and other nobles and officials.
He would have hated to find that his kinsfolk and friendly host and hostess, for whom he had a considerable regard, were mean enough and base enough to maltreat a poor little guest of their own invitation. Notwithstanding these demurs, Tom Spottiswoode of Bourhope rode so fast up to Chrissy as to cause her to give a violent start when she turned. "Hallo!
He only remembered, as to the Yule supper, a quarrel between Logan and Willie Home. This was the only examination at which Archbishop Spottiswoode attended. Had the Lords ‘quitted the diet’? The next examination was held on July 22, Dunfermline, Dunbar, Sir Thomas Hamilton, the President of the Court of Session, and other officials, all laymen, being present.
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