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" But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An there's the foe! "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 88
1905
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1839 - 376 pages
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The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain ...

John Dunlop - 1839 - 360 pages
...blythe and frisky, She eyes her free-born, martial boys, T,-kaff their whisky." " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." It has been said of the Scotch, that the term " Temperance," in its continental acceptation, is yet...
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The Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...rin, Till skelp— a shot — they're aff, a' throu'ther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,...Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe ; lie has пае thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings tease him...
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The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pages
...rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aif, a' throwther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, And there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...has borne witness, That " bring a Briton fra hii bill, 8*7, such is Royal George's will, And tbere'i ng Naecauld, faint-hearted doublings tea*e him ; Death comei, wi' fearleae eye he Been him, Wi' bloody...
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The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from ...

John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...thus contrasts them with a Caledonian soldier, animated by blind loyalty and highland whisky, — " But bring a Scotchman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek...a Highland gill, Say, such is royal GEORGE'S will, And there's the foe ! He has nae thought hut how to kill Twa at a blow ! Nae cauld faint-hearted doubtings...
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The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from ...

John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pages
...Caledonian soldier, animated by blind loyalty and highland whisky : — " But bring a Scotchman free his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill. Say, such is royal GEORGE'S will. And there's the foe ! He has na thought but how to kill ' Twa at a blow ! Nae cauld faint-hearted doublings...
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Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usages of the United Kingdom

John Dunlop - 1844 - 278 pages
...blythe and frisky, She eyes her free-born, martial boys, Tak aff their whisky." " But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a highland gill,...He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow." It has been said of the Scotch, that the term " Temperance," in its continental acceptation, is yet...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 113

1872 - 862 pages
...glory of colour and life which puts all such ghostly painting to shame : — " Bring a Scotsman from his hill. Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say,...such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He bos one thought but now to kill Twa at a blow. " Vir csnld faint-hearted doublings tease him; Death...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial ...

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...or rin, Till skelp— a shot !— they're aff a' throwthm,* To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,* Say, such is royal George's will, An' there 's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doublings...
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