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puts the case of parceners making partition, and one covenanting with the other to acquit of suit.

It is nevertheless unfortunately still a Bean (for your long-lived Oak grows not so); and, the next night, it may lie felled, horizontal, trodden into common mud.-But remark, at least, how natural to any agitated Nation, which has Faith, this business of Covenanting is.

There are multitudes of Presbyterians in Western Canada, who worship in their pure and simple faith with as much fervency and sincerity as did their covenanting forefathers in the days of the persecuting Dundee; and the quaint old Psalms, to which they are so much attached, sung to the strange old tunes, sound to them as sweet among the backwoods of Canada as in the peaceful villages of the Lowlands, or in the remote Highland glens, where I have often listened to their slow and plaintive strains borne upon the mountain breezes. "Are ye frae the braes of Gleneffar?" said an old Scotchwoman to me; "were ye at our kirk o' Sabbath last, ye would na' ken the difference." The Irishman declaims against the land he has forsaken-the Englishman too often suffers the remembrance of his poverty to sever the tie which binds him to the land of his birth-but where shall we find the Scotchman in whose breast love of his country is not a prominent feeling? When I was a child, and indeed until I was nearly a man, I consistently read Covenanting books.

My style is from the Covenanting writers.

But my Covenanting buckies rhyme all the time - a beautiful example of the unconscious rhyme above referred to.

It is silly of me, but I never can bear to think of quite coming to an end, I suppose because I am not so unselfish as the others." "Or may it not be a natural instinct, which is implanted in all, which perhaps you have not yet crushed by argument." Erica shook her head. "More likely to be a little bit of one of my covenanting ancestors coming out in me.

"He described the Scots as being ""possessed by the devil"", and instead of doing his utmost to support the king's interests was easily intimidated by the covenanting leaders and persuaded of the impossibility of resisting their demands, finally returning to Charles to urge him to give way."

In 1680 he was dispatched to London to influence the king against the indulgent method adopted by the Duke of Monmouth with the extreme Covenanting party.


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