 | Scotland - 1856 - 770 pages
...back to him, and pursue a new thread, commencing with hia more immediate literary followers. M'Kenzie, in his "Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scots Nation," already cited, gives • long account of John Bassol, a countryman of Duns', and his... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1881 - 512 pages
...manufactured or have made prey of from other countries, we shall have all our own at least. M'Kenzie, in his ' Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scots Nation,' gives a long account of John Bassol, a countryman of Duns', and his favoured pupil.... | |
 | Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt - Ballads, English - 1916 - 378 pages
...but without comment. J The ballad in relation to Scottish history is noticed also by George Mackenzie in his Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation (1708-22). Of the battle of Bannockburn he writes : "The English Historians tell us, That... | |
 | David Fergusson - Proverbs, Scottish - 1924 - 170 pages
...century, although not printed until forty-three years after his death. It is true that George Mackenzie, in his ' Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation/ &a, Vol. III., p. 461 (also quoting Dempster), refers to Archbishop James Beaton of Glasgow... | |
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MD; in his Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scotch Nation. 
