Refutation of the Misstatements and Calumnies Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Respecting the Messrs. BallantyneJ. Munroe, 1838 - 108 páginas |
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Abbotsford acceptance due accommodation alleged amount assertion Ballantyne and Co Ballantyne and Co.'s Ballantyne's bankruptcy Baronet Beacon behoof of Sir bookselling Canongate CAUSE OF SCOTT'S character concern connexion with James considered Constable Constable's copartnership counter-bills creditors Curries death deceased Sir Walter Diary discounts ditto documents doubt due this date Edinburgh evidence EXTRACTS fact feelings firm gentleman habits honorable improvident adventurer IMPUTATIONS insinuated J. G. LOCKHART James Bal James Ballan James Ballantyne JAMES MUNROE John Ballantyne John Gibson Lockhart John Hughes Kelso lantyne letter liabilities literary Lockhart says LOCKHART'S STATEMENT London matter means memory ments Messrs ness never parties partner pecuniary person picaroon primary bills printer printing printing-office profits promissory notes rashness readers REFUTATION regard respect ribaldry ruin SCOTT'S EMBARRASSMENTS sequestration sheaf Sir Wal Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter's thing tion transactions Trust Accounts trustees tyne tyne's WALTER SCOTT'S ACCOUNTS Walter Scott's representatives Whitsunday
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Página 53 - I have been far from suffering by James Ballantyne. I owe it to him to say, that his difficulties, as well as his advantages, are owing to me.
Página 23 - No, John, I will not own the book — I won't, you Piccaroon. When next I try St. Grubby's brook, The A. of Wa— shall bait the hook— And flat-fish bite as soon, As if before them they had got The worn-out wriggler. WALTER SCOTT.
Página 102 - April 18 Corrected proofs. I find JB has not returned to his business, though I wrote to say how necessary it was. My pity begins to give way to anger. Must he sit there and squander his thoughts and senses upon dowdy metaphysics and abstruse theology, till he addles his brains entirely, and ruins his business ? — I have written to him again, letter third, and, I am determined, last.
Página 101 - I have a sore grievance in poor Ballantyne's increasing lowness of heart, and I fear he is sinking rapidly into the condition of a religious dreamer. His retirement from Edinburgh was the worst advised scheme in the world. I in vain reminded him, that when our Saviour himself was to be led into temptation, the first thing the Devil thought of was to get him into the wilderness.
Página 108 - ... being brought involuntarily before the public as mere subordinates to the principal figure, it would be cruel to treat them otherwise than civilly, and the keeping of the picture forbids their being treated with more than civility : but, on the other hand, if the pen happens to be caustic, and the hero of the book has had much dealings with mankind, it is almost impossible that there should not supervene a great deal of prejudice, and consequent misrepresentation ; so that, what between cautious...
Página 45 - Cadell looked in in the evening on business. " I here register my purpose to practise economics. I have little temptation to do otherwise. Abbotsford is all that I can make it, and too large for the property; so I resolve— " No more building ; " No purchases of land, till times are quite safe; • " No buying books or expensive...
Página 108 - ... on the one hand, and rivalry and scandal on the other, the secondary characters of a contemporaneous biography are in general still less justly delineated than the hero himself: and, upon the whole, we feel corroborated in our doubts whether the very best of this species of biography can be considered in any higher light than a romance of real life — a picture, of which the principal figure must be considerably flattered, and everything else sacrificed to its prominence and effect.
Página 16 - ... continued intelligence of the printer's prosperity determined him to return to Scotland. Not finding any opening at the moment in Edinburgh, he again tried the shop at Kelso...
Página 16 - I shall show in the sequel, had left a deep and painful trace even upon that volatile mind." (Life, vol. ii. p. 196.) In this sketch of John Ballantyne's early history, there is a laboured particularity, and seeming accuracy of specification, calculated to impose upon the reader, and to induce a belief that it must have been drawn up from detailed, as well as authentic information. But a more erroneous notion could not possibly be entertained. Mr Lockhart's statement is inaccurate in almost every...
Página 25 - Perhaps it might be possible (and Gillon * has promised to make inquiry about it) to treat with the proprietors of some established paper — suppose the "Caledonian Mercury" — and we would all struggle to obtain for it some celebrity.