"For three or four miles the ground is covered with bodies of men and horses, many not dead. Wretches wounded unable t…"

"The whole subject of the Eucharist is too mysterious and difficult for me to arrive at any positive conviction; but i…"

"And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: b…"

"I recommend that my grandson be partly educated in Scotland that he do not despise his own country."

"We abolished the Aberdeen cabinet, the ablest we have had, perhaps, since the Reform Act—a cabinet not only adapted, …"

"Aberdeen was a spare man, of grave and formal but singularly refined manners, with studious habits and fastidious tas…"

"Behold a chosen band shall aid thy plan, And own thee chieftain of the critic clan. First in the ranks illustrious sh…"

"It is surprising that all these Jacobites shd frequent the Kirk. There is every variety here, for an odd log church o…"

"I will name then the following characteristics, one and all of which were more prominent in him than in any public ma…"

"Now and then Sir Robert Peel would show some degree of unconscious regard to the mere flesh and blood, if I may so sp…"