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... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...in came into England, and, year after year, attacked and de spoiled large towns. To coax these sea kings away, the weak Ethelred paid them money; but... ...d afterwards, where his sis ter, who was young and beautiful, married the Scottish King. Edgar himself was not important enough for anybody to care m... ...ng away from Dover, where he happened to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refug... ... Merton Abbey upon these conditions, and journeyed away to see his wife: a Scottish Princess who was then at St. Edmund’s Bury. Almost as soon as he h... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ... ...complaining of the injury that had been done to Mr. Hampden, who was their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton...

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... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...ondition of Scotland is much altered from what it was; pauperism and great towns have worked ‘strange defeatures’ in Scottish society. A vast capital ... ...sal of land as an act of ‘persecution;’ and upon this principle—that, in a county where his grace was pretty nearly the sole landed proprietor, to ref... ... enough to have stood a contest for the representation of a great Scottish county; of general information; and, in particular, he is an excellent Gree... ...ing to the ancient usages of Mediterranean seamanship), or if it possessed towns containing accumulations of provisions or other stores, or offered go...

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...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ... the bulwark of the Protestant faith, had a way of winning battles, taking towns, over-running countries, and levying contributions, whilk made his se... ...autious to avoid those nearer and more secret paths, by means of which the county of Argyle was accessible from the eastward; for his relation and chi... ...of the Highlands of Perthshire, so as to menace the principal town of that county. His enemies were not unprepared for his reception. Ar- gyle, at the... ...pt the southern side of the Grampian ridge, moving along eastward into the county of Angus, resolving from thence to proceed into Aberdeenshire, in or... ...ar, it may be said that they are traitors and cut-throats to all fortified towns. Hence it is plain, that a soldier is a profession pecu- liarly favou...

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...ickens We performed Auld Lang Syne the whole day; seeing noth- ing, out of towns and villages, but the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometime... ...The latter had nothing in them but stock advertisements, a meeting about a county rate, and a highway robbery. As I am a greedy reader, I could not ma... ...n Creed in a terrific voice. I paid my bill next day, and retired from the county with all possible precipitation. That was not a commonplace story wh... ...s so temptingly at hand) the Athol brose. Once was I coming south from the Scottish Highlands in hot haste, hoping to change quickly at the station at... ...r want of a tea- pot. So to the old palace Inns and old monastery Inns, in towns and cities of the same bright country; with their mas- sive quadrangu...

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...e a home feeling on the spot; for I am a countryman of the Sabbath, so to speak, and all Sabbath observances, like a Scottish accent, strike in me mix... ...ked one behind the other like tramps, but their pace was remarkable. The son led the way, a tall, ill- made, sombre, Scottish-looking man; the mother ... ...I had only to follow them; and then the mother asked me what I wanted by the lake at such an hour. I replied, in the Scottish manner, by inquiring if ... ...ct, but one stimulating to a traveller. For I was now upon the limit of V elay, and all that I beheld lay in another county – wild Gevaudan, mountaino... ...y one who reckoned on respect, and stood looking after me in silent dudgeon, as I crossed the bridge and entered the county of Gevaudan. UPPER GEVAUDA... ...y the Hermits of Marco Sadeler – enchanting prints, full of wood and field and me- diaeval landscapes, as large as a county, for the imagination to go... ...e still recall the days of the great persecution, and the graves of local martyrs are still piously regarded. But in towns and among the so-called bet...

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...ed the favour of a few minutes’ conversation in private with Ma- dame. The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse 16 A Modern Telemac... ...r whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her formality in her eagerness, ‘we ... ...tched weak creatures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong... ...the clear reaches of river, the beautiful turns, the little vil- lages and towns gleaming white among the trees, seemed to pass unseen before her eyes... ...ss on the south side on the Pyrenees, and was probably by this time in the county of Rousillon, intending to besiege Rosas. Once with them all would b... ...the lagoons, in the carriage to the seaport of Cette, one of the old Greek towns of the Gulf of Lyon, and with a fine harbour full of ships. Maitre He...

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... to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But 12 Waverley this was a cons... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...R FATHER MISS BRADWARDINE was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the county town of —, upon her health being proposed among a round of beauties,... ...d himself to be pos- sessed of a bull of matchless merit, brought from the county of Devon (the Damnonia, of the Romans, if we can trust Robert of Cir... ...our not me. I do not go out to park-dikes, and to steadings, and to market-towns, to have herds and cottars and burghers pull off their bonnets to me ... ...ard’s views were very different. He could not but ob- serve, that in those towns in which they proclaimed James the Third, ‘no man cried, God bless hi... ...n patroling dureing the night on the different roads which led towards the towns where the army happened to quarter. ‘While this small army was out in...

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...d schemes were formed, as desperate as they were adventurous. Thus a young Scottishman of rank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal... ...s on the Law of Scotland Resolved and Answered,’ are works of authority in Scottish jurisprudence. As is generally the case, the doubts are held more ... ...ill of late years, every advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in s... ...n, to hear, and shrug thy shoulders. Of Dumfries, the capital town of this county, I have but little to say, and will not abuse your patience by remin... ... me that some folks had gone to Brokenburn from her house, or neighbouring towns, that did not come so safe back again. ‘Wandering Willie,’ she said, ... ...ken the lad, a son of Dumtoustie of that ilk, member of Parliament for the county of —, and a nephew of the laird’s younger brother, worthy Lord Bladd... ...w hours longer. Besides, he would have time to speak to the sheriff of the county—perhaps to the King’s Advocate—and set about the matter in a regular...

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...otest: viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every county should be running after you with his posse, touch a hair of your hea... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...g, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establishment by the diffusive radiatio... ...ence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. But at last all is finished. Sound your horn, guard! Manchester, goo... ...ee stages termi- nate in Preston (called, by way of distinction from other towns of that name, Proud Preston); at which place it is that the separate ... .... 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied the severe exertions of tw... ...d sank into profound silence. Except the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to n... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...

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...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ...from which they started, and there delivered over to the magistrates and the seclusion of a county jail. Since I crossed the Atlantic, one miserable s... ...- tan sourness, the fierce, sordid appetite for dollars, or the dreary existence of country towns. A few wild story-books which delighted his childhoo... ... a few who had no particular ties in the neighbourhood, and preferred to shift into another county when they fell into trouble, their departure moved ... ...h, which might perhaps have served as rallying-point for these loose houses, and pulled the township into something like intelligible unity, stands so...

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...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ... hospitable roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old Eng... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...e learn that the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead on the floor of the concil chamber, by James R. Vin...

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...Ralph, shaking his head. “There was Sir Henry —at your age he had made the Scottish thieves look about them, I promise you. And to go no further back ... ... by the Count de Bearn, I have seen little else—three stricken fields— two towns stormed—castles more than I can remember.” “Alas!” said Eustace, “I h... ...t when at length the King had freed himself from their trammels, the whole county of Somerset rose to expel the intruders from Lynwood Keep, and rein-... ...that the Knight had again taken his wonted place amongst the gentry of the county. Entertain- ments were exchanged with his neighbours, hunting and ha... ...oke long of the Lord de Clarenham, because his favour would be well in the county; but at last he has fixed on your brother, because he may do somewha... ...h fields and fair vineyards spreading far away to the west and north, with towns and villages here and there rising among them; while far away to the ...

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...al!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk- bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay beyond the... ...and such gesticulation and flirtation as there may be, interests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much mo... ...terests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much more might this! In a fortnight, larger Montelimart, half a... ...versal sound and smoke; and at- tained—the Phrygian Cap of Liberty! In all Towns, Trees of Liberty also may be planted; with or without advantage. Sai... ... Thomas Carlyle sits in the Jacobins Church at Paris, has Daughters in the Towns here; shrill-tongued, driven acrid: consider how the memory of good K... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull... ...bre Jacobin, has to watch itself! Directories of Departments, what we call County Magis- tracies, being chosen by Citizens of a too ‘active’ class, ar...

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...d framed the plain into long, aerial vistas; and the clean, bright, gardened townships spoke of country fare and pleasant summer evenings on the stoop... ...r ever altered – and it was from here that you had the first view of the old township lying in the sands, its white windmills bick- ering in the chill... ...en falling lower and lower from the capital of the State to the capital of a county, and from that again, by the loss of its charter and town lands, t... ... it for the moment. In the meantime, however, the Americans rule in Monterey County. The new county seat, Salinas City, in the bald, corn- bearing pla... ...agi- nation, and surprises while it charms. Here you shall see cas- tellated towns that would befit the scenery of dreamland; streets that glow with c... ... their desert, and are irritably conscious of a hunter’s camp in an adjacent county. T o these last, of course, Fontainebleau will seem but an extende... ...ng To the braes o’ Balquidder.” – which is indeed apt to echo in the ears of Scottish chil- dren, and to him, in view of his experience, must have fou...

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...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...ertainly proved more than a match for all the clergymen of the neighboring towns, some of whom (as the most intellectual persons of that neighborhood)... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...ewspapers, &c., it followed, naturally enough, that the distant provincial towns, though not without their own separate literature and their own liter... ...oaning respiration which is made by men who use an axe, or by those who in towns ply the “three-man beetle” of Falstaff, as paviers; echoes they certa...

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...parts so grotesque, wilder also by much in Connaught than in Lord Massey’s county of Limerick; whilst he (with- out affecting any delight in the hunti... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...he rustic; though, considering the multi- plied distribution of our assize towns, our cathedral towns, our sea-ports, and our universities, all so man... ...s. Lord Carbery was a thorough fox-hunter. The fox-hunting of the adjacent county of Leicestershire was not then what it is now. The state of the land... ...rtance of this great house rested exclusively upon its connection with the county of Chester. In this connection it was that the young Vis- count Belg... ...men and English women in past genera- tions, for connecting the provincial towns with the two royal universities of the land, this Manchester school w... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near... ... where they please and as they please; necessarily distributed amongst the towns- people; in any case, therefore, liable to no control or super- visio...

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...s were ill drawn up, and were at once broken. Some fled to V eii and other towns, many were drowned in crossing the Tiber, and it was but a few who sh... ...es after them. 64 A Book of Golden Deeds The Greeks, in going through the towns to enforce the idol worship, came to a little city called Modin, some... ...ways consid- ered as their impenetrable barrier throughout the winter. The towns quickly fell into his hands, and he was rapidly recov- ering all he h... ... in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of Aargau. Rodolf of Hapsbu... ...captivity had been the worst of all—almost every noble was a robber chief; Scottish Borderer preyed upon English Borderer, Highlander upon Lowlander, ... ...they were such ponderous articles that they sometimes served as weapons. A Scottish virago has been know to dash out the brains of a wounded enemy wit... ... left his English wife and her in- fant son at his castle of Cranallagh in county Longford, think- ing them safe there while he joined the royal force...

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...at’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful. Be an inspiration. I suppose I’d better become... ...he garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to con... ...Say honestly— Of course I may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...unded with the articulations of the mountains; and the isle and its unsub- stantial canopy rose and shimmered before us like a single mass. There was ... ...t have been in Europe; the moun- tain forms behind modelled in little from the Alps, and the forest which clustered on their ramparts a growth no more... ...s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mostly French... ...own 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a ruinous wall encloses the cemetery of the ... ...m should thus lie side by side in that outlandish inlet: stranger still that in the owner of the Nyanza, Captain Dewar, I should find a man of the sam... ...ill be blowing also, speeding the canoes; but the screen of bush completely intercepts it from the shore, and sleep and silence and com- panies of mos... ...nd, at which we landed. As we advanced, we were soon done with encounter, and seemed to explore a city of the dead. Only, between the posts of open ho...

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...rn’s visit. The dame was in hot haste to get home. Rumours were rife as to Scottish invasions, and her tower was not too far south not to need to be o... ...hey slept, and their attendants found lairs in the kitchens or stables. In towns there was generally harbour for the noble portion; indeed in some, Wa... ...their hounds, And some sware they would not marry her For cities nor for towns. Glances again went towards the scarred visage, but Grisell was heedl... ...with it. We will show the young recre- ant how promises are kept in Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted he... ...ld moors and mosses. Then methought I would come hither, or to some of the towns about, and see how it fares with the old T ower and the folk; and if ... ...each of the Duke’s domains, glittering back and front in the tabard of his county’s armorial bearings, and with its banner borne beside him. Then a di...