Famous Scots Series
On the 21st July 1683, Lord William Russell was beheaded in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, because Charles II., F.D., who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one, thought it would help to keep alive the Stuart doctrine of the Divine right of kings. On the same day, the pol...
as best he could, and was not able to move about again for a year or thereabouts (1523). And then it turned out that a very singular purpose had entered the mind of the ill or c...
5. CHAPTER IVWe are now, perhaps, in a better position to face Melville’s further characterisation of him as a ‘Stoik philosopher, of gud religion for a poet.’ That Sir James knew something...
6. CHAPTER VIn Buchanan’s case, the revolt from authority seems to have produced different effects. As regards dogma, it appears to have led him into an attitude of mind that was mainly neg...
4. CHAPTER IIIScaliger’s ascription to Buchanan of a spirit superior to the temptations of wealth and fame seems thus fairly well justified; but what of his further claim that he was insensib...
1. CHAPTER IOn the 21st July 1683, Lord William Russell was beheaded in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, because Charles II., F.D., who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one, thought it...
2. CHAPTER IIBuchanan’s life, like the lives of most people who have done anything worth speaking of in their time, divides itself roughly into two sections--the period of preparation, and t...
3. did. Knox and Melville repeatedly reminded Queen Mary and King Jamesthat there was another kingdom in the realm besides theirs--the kingdom of Christ, to wit--and suggested, or rather demanded, that their Majesties should not meddle with officia...
7. CHAPTER VIBuchanan was born early in February 1506, at Moss or Mid-Leowen, on the Blane Water, about two miles south-east of Killearn in Stirlingshire, of a ‘family ancient rather than op...