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Dinmont, with whom I had the good fortune to form an accidental acquaintance "It was my gude fortune that," said Dinmont. "Odd, my brains wad hae been knockit out by twa black-guards if it hadna been for his four quarters." "Shortly after we parted at the town of I lost my baggage by thieves, and it was while residing at Kippletringan I accidentally met the young gentleman.
I only hope that, having protited by this wisdom of mine, he will give me a share of the spoil. Thus the essay ends; and then the discourse thereon begins MILVERTON. Well, of all the intolerable wretches and black-guards MR. MIDHURST. A conceited prig, too! UUNSFORD. A wicked, designing villain! ELLESMERE. Any more: any more?
Perhaps he might have expressed Burns's esteem for the "class of men called black-guards," as far as their unconventionality is concerned. He saw a great deal of life in many varieties; like Scott in Liddesdale, "he was making himsel' a' the time." With his cousin R. A. M. Stevenson, Walter Ferrier, Mr.
Dinmont, with whom I had the good fortune to form an accidental acquaintance "It was my gude fortune that," said Dinmont. "Odd, my brains wad hae been knockit out by twa black-guards if it hadna been for his four quarters." "Shortly after we parted at the town of I lost my baggage by thieves, and it was while residing at Kippletringan I accidentally met the young gentleman.
And, Sir, when the first reformers began, they did not intend to be martyred: as many of them ran away as could. BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, there was your countryman, Elwal, who you told me challenged King George with his black-guards, and his red-guards. JOHNSON. 'My countryman, Elwal, Sir, should have been put in the stocks; a proper pulpit for him; and he'd have had a numerous audience.
Then they fell foul of the picture dealers, dirty black-guards, who preyed on artists and starved them. It was really a pity that connoisseurs mistrusted painters to such a degree as to insist upon a middleman under the impression that they would thus make a better bargain. This question of bread and butter excited them yet more, though Claude showed magnificent contempt for it all.
Brass and pearl button making used to be important industries, and tons of such wares used to be made in Birmingham in the course of a month. Comparatively few are made now. Yet we are not exactly "buttonless black-guards," as Cobbett at least, I think it was Cobbett once disrespectfully called the Quakers, and buttons of various kinds other than pearl and brass are turned out in barrow loads.
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