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...his book. Michael suggested valuable edits—though I did not always lis- ten. Historical work by Carla Hesse, Martha Woodmansee, and Mark Rose Acknowle... ...o the online photograph library, mean- ing to show him the wealth of amazing historical photographs. Instead, I found myself brooding over the lengthy... ... the patent. 8 But while it is impressive to see Jefferson’s easy command of historical evidence or his grasp of the importance of limiting the subjec... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...hen, and each time it was also extended retrospectively. Artists, musicians, novelists, and filmmakers who had created their works on the understanding... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c...

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...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...eal story. Indeed, I may here state generally that, although I have deemed historical per- sonages free subjects of delineation, I have never on any o... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...ng the house of Croftangry, when I can set down at length the evidents and historical witness anent the facts which I shall allege, seeing that words,... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...

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...almost of his success as a novelist he was given, like too many successful novelists (not like Scott), to rather undignified and foolish attacks on cr... ..., l’ennui boueux jusqu’a mi-jambe, that his style is intolerable, that his historical han- dling is like that of Gibbon, Hume, and other dull people; ... ...nes from Political Life Une T enebreuse Affaire The Gondreville Mystery An Historical Mystery Un Episode sous la T erreur An Episode Under the T error... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul...

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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... ...rrelsome isolation—a mere forenoon’s tiff, as one may call it, in comparison with the great historical cycles—has so separated their thoughts and ways... ... well off nowadays, and not by any means overworked; but somehow you always see in them the historical representative of the serf of yore, and think n... ...served a certain reputation for beauty. It was in 1730 that the Abbe Guilbert published his Historical Description of the Palace, Town, and Forest of ... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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...ch of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story was soon after adopted as historically established, and was reported at length by journals of the hig... ...ew, of that most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ..., 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 ... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...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... ..., etc., and advantageously known as one of those who applied his legal and historical knowledge to the bending back into constitutional moulds of thos...

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...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...el—Shovel waits his turn, he and his ancestors. I would have tackled him before, but my state trials have never come. So that I have now quite planned... ...but my state trials have never come. So that I have now quite planned:— Dyce of Ythan. (Historical, 1750. ) Sophia Scarlet. (To- day. ) The Shovels ... ... The Shovels of Newton French. (Historical, 1650 to 1830. ) And quite planned and part written:- The Pearl Fisher. (To-day. ) (With Lloyd a machine.... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...of the general reader, who might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the A... ... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ... Third, and yet better known as one of Shakspeare’s characters than by his historical fame. The castle and town of Ashby, at this time, belonged to Ro... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...all be cut off without the ball of the right foot. See on this subject the Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, (a most beautiful volume... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...eople, in order to hold possession of the estate of Gondreville. [See “ An Historical Mystery.”] Conse- quently, all the support and influence of Mali... ...eople, who had despoiled the Cinq-Cygne family of their property. [See “An Historical Mystery.”] Grevin was not only one of the most important witness... ...by the criminal trial relating to the ab- duction of Gondreville. [See “An Historical Mystery.”] The Marions, Grevins, and Giguets were all the more u... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ... ...le; there is no such fertile source for com- pilers of causes celebres and novelists. In the eyes of the law, you must remember, the counterfeiting of...

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...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...s life have beheld. A similar caricaturing of nature is to be noted in the historical pictures (of un- known origin, period, and creation) which reach... ...lderliness and dignity as to cut a couple of capers after the fashion of a Scottish highlander—alighting neatly, each time, on the flat of his heels. ... ...letting my thoughts wander! What a fool I am!” So saying, he exchanged his Scottish costume (of a shirt and nothing else) for attire of a more Europea...

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...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...id George Osborne, “you who are so clever an artist, you must make a grand historical picture of the scene of the boots. Sedley shall be represented i... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...nd to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical reputation on the oft-trodden battle-grounds of the Low Countrie... ... at Brussels on the 15th of June in 289 Thackeray the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement about it, and I ... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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...dull rebellion, of which Esther her- self did not know the cause. Like the Scottish sheep, she wanted to pasture in solitude, she could not conquer th... ... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the... ...Conciergerie, while they are making their way thither. The Conciergerie, a historical name—a terrible name,—a still more terrible thing, is inseparabl... ...n to persons of the upper classes; still, in spite of the interest of this historical digression, it should be as short as the journey of the prison v...

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... Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand. I’m broken. It’s the historical Anglo- Saxon way of making life miserable… . Oh, my dear, I have... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ... It was a wonderful trip. So many points of interest through Massachusetts—historical. There’s Lex- ington where we turned back the redcoats, and Long... ...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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...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ... ... the treaty of the four powers, an insult to France, is now an established historical fact; but it is necessary to remind the reader that from July to... ... of the insurrection in Hungary our ears were battered by the press and by novelists about the famous citadel of Komorn; and la Peyrade knew that by a...

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..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...hem may be dealt with quite justly as accepting the general account of the historical process which is here given. Then first we must distinguish a se... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w... ...he American Libraries’ Association, for example, and Mr. Nield’s “Guide to Historical Fiction”—and what are not done he would commission good men to d... ...of the sequence of such conditions; and, in addition, there is the sort of historical literature that seeks to elucidate and impose general interpreta...

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... thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national... ...e; little enough possibly; possibly far the most part of it comes from bad historical novels and the disquieting statu- ary that garnishes some facade... ...perhaps a little farther away, an essay on the ‘Two St. Michael’s Mounts,’ historical and picturesque; perhaps if it didn’t come too long, I might thr... ...y merits. ‘ENGLISH, THE: – a dull people, incapable of compre- hending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scot... ...once I have studied and written these two vols., The Transformation of the Scottish Highlands and Scotland and the Union, I shall have a good ground t... ...188 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 The best of the present French novelists seems to me, in- comparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very ... ...ture for facts, relations, val- ues – material; as a man, before writing a historical novel, reads up memoirs. But it is not by reading memoirs that h...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ...t, who, finding himself on a certain Sunday outside the walls of a certain historical English castle, famous for its pictures, was refused admission t... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma...

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... what they had already written for want of parchment. As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of to day is present, so some flittin... ...AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers Our reflections had already acquired a historical remoteness from the scenes we had left, and we ourselves essayed... ...d so became dolphins, we are not 45 HenryDavidThoreau concerned about the historical truth of this, but rather a higher poetical truth. We seem to he... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting... ... In the Saxon poetry extant, in the earliest English, and the contemporary Scottish poetry, there is less to remind the reader of the rudeness and vig...

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...uburn, the golden ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the f... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ... ...e Tuileries.” 323 Burlesques CHAPTER III. THE ADVANCE OF THE PRETENDERS.— HISTORICAL REVIEW. WE WILL NOW RESUME THE NARRATIVE, and endeavor to com- p...