Refutation of the mistatements [sic] and calumnies contained in mr Lockhart's Life of sir Walter Scott, bart. respecting the messrs Ballantyne, by the trustees and son of J. BallantyneOrme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 96 páginas |
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Abbotsford acceptance due alleged amount Anne of Geierstein appears assertion Ballantyne and Co Ballantyne and Company Ballantyne's bankruptcy Baronet Beacon behoof of Sir biographer bookseller Canongate cern character conduct connexion with James considered Constable Constable's copartnership counter-bills creditors DEAR SIR death deceased Sir Walter deeply injured Diary discounts ditto documents to overthrow doubt due this date embarrassments evidence Extracts fact feelings firm gentleman habits hart honourable imputation insinuated instant calling J. G. LOCKHART James Ballan James Ballantyne January John Ballantyne John Gibson Lockhart John Hughes John Patterson Kelso labours letter liabilities literary literary executor London matter means memory ment Messrs Ballantyne never parties partner pecuniary person picaroon primary bills printer printing printing-office profits proper rashness readers REFUTATION regard respect ribaldry ruin settled in Edinburgh sheaf Sir Walter Scott statements thing tion transactions trustees and executors tyne WALTER SCOTT'S ACCOUNTS Walter Scott's representatives
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Página 5 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 51 - However that may have been, and whatever may have been his delicacy respecting this point, he regarded the embarrassment of his commercial firm, on the whole, with the feelings not of a merchant but of a gentleman. He thought that by devoting the rest of his life to the service of his creditors, he could, in the upshot, pay the last farthing he owed them. They (with one or two paltry exceptions) applauded his honourable intentions- and resolutions, and partook, to a large extent, in the self-reliance...
Página 36 - The plan went on under James's management, just as John had begun it. Under his management also — such was the incredible looseness of it — the counter-bills, meant only for being sent into the market in the event of the primary bills being threatened with dishonour— these instruments of safeguard for Constable against contingent danger were allowed to lie uninquired about in Constable's desk, until they had swelled to a truly monstrous
Página 80 - In writing of the case to myself, he says: "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 40 - James Ballantyne this morning, good honest fellow, with a visage as black as the crook. He hopes no salvation ; has indeed taken measures to stop. It is hard, after having fought such a battle.
Página 47 - ... reclamations which have been put forward on the score that I have wilfully distorted the character and conduct of other men, for the purpose of raising Scott at their expense, I have already expressed my regret that my sense of duty to his memory should have extorted from me the particulars in question. If the complaining parties can produce documents to overthrow my statements — let them do so.
Página 17 - Scott, affected by the loss he had sustained, for such he evidently considered which verses were never intended for any eye but that of him to whom they were addressed. Here they are, in all their nakedness, as published by Mr. Lockhart:— " No, John, I will not own the book— I won't, you Picaroon. 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 18 - ... very last in endeavouring to take exercise, in which he was often imprudent, and was up and dressed the very morning before his death. In his will the grateful creature has left me a legacy of £2000, liferented, however, by his wife ; and the rest of his little fortune goes betwixt his two brothers. I shall miss him very much, both in business, and as an easy and lively companion, who was eternally active and obliging in whatever I had to do.
Página 15 - Ballantynes, he was thereby greatly benefited"; that " his own large expenditure absorbed the whole profits of the printing establishment, and much more besides ; involving the elder brother in ruin at a period of life when, from the nature and extent of his business, he might otherwise have possessed a comfortable if not an affluent independence.
Página 45 - Co. for these bills and notes ; and of all these obligations, Sir Walter kept a regular account in a book of his own (a royal 8vo, bound in red morocco). This matter was no further under James Ballantyne's management than as he was the mere instrument in getting the bills discounted.