Evidence: | 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Mar 1812 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1781 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | archaeologist / antiquarian |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alexander Peden |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Sermon |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18296 | |
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Author: | Lady Charlotte Bury | |
Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 88 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Lady Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), I, p. 88, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18296, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
The text that outraged the ladies is not identifiable. |
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