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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt:... am, you well know, in a different situation, having made the English language my particular study." "To-morrow came," said Lord Kames, "when Lord Royston was hardly intelligible; Lord Milton, though no elegant speaker, was well heard and his meaning comprehended. As for Lord Dun, deil a word from beginning to end did the English understand of his speech." Ramsay further states that it was alleged of a relation of his own, then a young woman of fashion, that her language kept pace with her dress, and that when going to a ball or to the Countess of Breadalbane's routes in a manteau and petticoat, she knapped English insufferably. There is little of ecclesiastical matter in Ramsay's remains suitable for reproduction in a paper like this. One tit-bit, however, is too racy to be omitted. In a disputed induction, a friend of the patron offered a leading elder 100 merks to sign the call, and conciliate the people. He rejected the offer, but his wife came next day, and said her husband had a tender conscience, and could not take money, but would they try him with a saughie and a boat of limestone % The hint was taken, and succeeded to admiration. 10«A March, 1893. Rev. William Andson, Vice-President, in the Chair. Donations and Exhibits.--Essex Naturalist, December, 1892; Proceedings of the Glasgow Natural History Society; Proceedings of the Academy of Science, Rochester, New York State; and the History of the Old Lodge of Dumfries (Kilwinning, No. 53), presented by the author, Mr James Smith. Mr J. R. Wilson exhibited a copy of the intimation of Mrs Robert Burns' death, signed by Robert Burns, the son of the poet, dated 26th March, 1834. Mr Arnott exhibited a large collection of floral specimens from Broussa, Asiatic Turkey, collected by Mr Millingen, a resi...