George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer: A Biography |
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Page 148 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 214 - ANE DETECTIOUN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erie Bothwell, And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by GB With oval portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by G.
Page 342 - The song I sang old Languet had me taught, Languet, the shepherd best swift Ister knew, For clerkly rede, and hating what is naught, For faithful heart, clean hands, and mouth as true. With his sweet skill my skill-less youth he drew To have a feeling taste of him that sits Beyond the heav'n, far more beyond our wits.
Page 351 - George again, and fund him bedfast by 1 his custome, and asking him, whow he did, ' Even going the way of weilfare,
Page 350 - When we cam to his chalmer, we fand him sitting in his chaire, teatching his young man that servit him in his chalmer to spell a, b, ab ; e, b, eb, etc. Efter salutation, Mr Andro sayes, " I sie, Sir, yie are nocht ydle."
Page 377 - TO HIS SINGULAR FREYND M. RANDOLPH MAISTER OF POSTES TO THE QUEINES G. OF INGLAND. IN LONDON. " I resauit twa pair of lettres of you sens my latter wryting to you. wyth the fyrst I...
Page 43 - He is now, I am told, the prince of the Paris divines. Good heavens ! What waggon-loads of trifling ! What pages he fills with disputes whether there can be any horsemanship without a horse, whether the sea was salt when God made it. If he is a specimen of the Parisian, no wonder they have so little stomach for Luther.
Page 178 - Talis per omnes continuus tenor* Annos tepenti rura Favonio Mulcebat, et nullis feraces Seminibus recreabat agros. Talis beatis incubat insulis Felicis aurae perpetuus tepor, Et nesciis campis senectae Difficilis, querulique morbi. Talis silentum per taciturn nonius Levi susurrat murmure spiritus, Lethenque juxta obliviosam Funereas agitat cupressos.
Page 352 - V r . that when Buchanan was dying, he called for Mr. Young his servant, and asked him how much money he had of his, and finding that it was not sufficient for defraying the charges of his burial, he commanded him to distribute it amongst the poor. Upon which Mr. Young asking, who then would be at the charges of burying him ? he answered that he was very indifferent about that...