This shows that he has good principles.' _Ante_,
i. 418.
[870] _New horse-shoeing Husbandry_, by Jethro Tull, 1733.
[871] 'He owned he sometimes talked for victory.' _Ante_, iv. 111, and
v. 17.
[872] 'They said that a great family had a _bard_ and a _senachi_, who
were the poet and historian of the house; and an old gentleman told me
that he remembered one of each. Here was a dawn of intelligence....
Another conversation informed me that the same man was both bard and
senachi. This variation discouraged me.... Soon after I was told by a
gentleman, who is generally acknowledged the greatest master of
Hebridian antiquities, that there had, indeed, once been both bards and
senachies; and that _senachi_ signified _the man of talk_, or of
conversation; but that neither bard nor senachi had existed for some
centuries.' Johnson's _Works_, ix. 109.
[873] See _ante_, iii. 41, 327
[874] 'Towards evening Sir Allan told us that Sunday never passed over
him like another day. One of the ladies read, and read very well, the
evening service;--"and Paradise was opened in the wild."' _Piozzi
Letters_, i. 173. The quotation is from Pope's _Eloisa to Abelard_,
l. 134:--
'You raised these hallowed walls; the desert smil'd,
And Paradise was open'd in the wild.'
[875] He sent these verses to Boswell in 1775.
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