The Scotiad, or Wise men of the North!!! A serio-comic and satiric poem1809 |
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admitted Advocate Advocate in 1800 Atheism betray'd Bill Cobbett's blust'ring BR-GH-M bully Swede Buonaparte C-bb-tt Castlereagh start requisition Cevallos Cevallos's Exposure chance of siller change no shuffling Cobbett cobler confess Coram the valiant dimpled wiles doctrine doctrine-minuets they creep Edin Edinburgh Review Elysium END OF CANTO frae fritter'd force Gaul gout Heav'n ILIAD Illustrious Moore Immortal bard itch J. J. STOCKDALE Jacobinic JOHN BULL King leaving you nae liberty licentious Little Queen Lord M-rr-y sicken MACRO mair should brazen moral muse Napoleon Nappy nation Nature as sep'rate noble numbers Objects to Scotia's Oblig'd to cry Orkneyshire PALL MALL Pedro's change Poem political possess'd prov'd psora pustules Rehears'd for sake ridicule and pantomime satiric Scotia's fiddle-trial SCOTIAD Scottish SCOTUS second sight society Spain Spanish Revolution stage eclat Talents thee there's thou great Rousseau troth untrue heart valiant J-ff-y Varro vulgus Walter Scott
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Página 54 - Europe ; — he would next delay doing anything until the season for operation was nearly gone by ; — he would then probably treat a little, and be duped by his allies, and cavil and wrangle a good deal, and quarrel with some of them, and excite a hatred of all of them, and of himself, and a contempt of his plans, among his own subjects. But, all these preliminaries of failure being settled, he would at last come to his operations ; and his policy would be to get up a number of neat little expeditions,...
Página 42 - ... without starting at the echo of our own voices, or looking round the chamber for some spy or officer of the government. Thus much had been done for us by the lapse of time, and the universal and signal failure of all the policy •which the English reign of terror gave a cloak to.
Página 35 - The people, and of the people the middle, and above all the lower orders, have alone the merit of raising this glorious opposition to the common enemy of national independence. Those who had so little of what is commonly termed interest in the country, those who had no stake in the community (to speak the technical language of the aristocracy) — the persons of no consideration in the state...
Página 53 - Continent, or to defend his new kingdoms in Italy, — to take a province or two from the German princes, — and to punish, perhaps destroy, Prussia. Now, if Bonaparte's counsellors were taken from the English political caste, it is very plain what method he would adopt to gain all those points. He would, in the first place, take care to make war without the shadow of a pretence, and put himself clearly in the wrong before all Europe ; — he would next delay doing anything until the season for...
Página 22 - NEwTON left for further examination, will be deemed no impertinent nor useless inquiry ; more particularly at this time, when many of the most eminent philosophers upon the Continent have been endeavouring to account for all the operations of nature upon merely mechanical principles, with a view to exclude the Deity from any concern in the government of the system, and thereby to lay a foundation for the introduction of Atheism...
Página 47 - ... higher classes, and in direct opposition to them, as well as to the enemy whom they so vilely joined — raised up the standard of insurrection — bore it through massacre and through victory, until it had chased the usurper away, and waved over his deserted courts.
Página 35 - We have little hopes of as,ystem of polity, which, in an advancing society, offers no prizes to talents, and no distinctions to wealth — which takes no aids from the great extrinsic sources of individual power and authority. This, however, is an inquiry which, in all its extent, we have not now either leisure or space to pursue ; but which we hope, hereafter, to find occasion to resume.
Página 38 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current where it serves Or lose our ventures.
Página 55 - English army, there assembled for the precise purpose of doing all sort of nothings against him. He cares not if the English are mad enough to make a descent upon Calabria in his absence ; or childish enough, because it may have a partial success, to reward those who ventured on so useless an enterprise, instead of calling them to an instantaneous and severe account. All other objects of subordinate importance he leaves in like manner to themselves. The Swede is allowed to strut his little hour of...
Página 48 - General of the Southern armies. If it could be said of any of the rebels, it could be said of Johnston, that, in fact, he was " 'The noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, Did what they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a generous, honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them.