 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 460 pages
...truths before, when men of rising ambition and budding hopes would leave them to be discovered by tho event. The old tree and the withered leaf are easily...the commissioners must be Englishmen, and meet in London;—a most useful canal they would have made of it, had not the lucky introduction of steam-boats—Dens... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 446 pages
...be discovered by the event. The old tree and the withered leaf are easily parted. But, besides sach matters of punctilio, Mr. Journalist, there has been...centre in London. We could not have a Caledonian canal, bat the commissioners must be Englishmen, and meet in London; — a most useful canal they would have... | |
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Journalist, there has been in England a gradual and progressive system of assuming the management of affairs entirely and exclusively proper to Scotland, as if we were totally unworthy of having the management of our own concerns. 
