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...campaign continued so well that three months ago the College of Physicians of Edinburgh restored to him his diploma. Friends urged the General Council for immediate restoration. It might consider the matter at its next semi-annual meeting in June. Last week Dr. Axham died in old age, and posthumous re-establishment would be unprecedented in England...
About a year ago Sir Henry Lunn, rich, respected, wrote a personal letter to the Very Reverend, the Provost, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, which recorded his life's result...
Bitterly was the marriage rued. The whole court was witness of her unhappiness. Bothwell disdained her openly, visited his former wife, was so cruel that she threatened kill herself. Her people and her nobles united against her; she fled Edinburgh with Bothwell. With Mary beside him, his forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
Lord Rosebery's flashing wit has long operated as a stimulant upon the minds of all English knights of the pen who have written about him. Two of Sir James Barrie's observations are justly famous: "The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were my politics...
...title that has been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...