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luzula"There is one thing to shew the natural Equality among Men, which may help also to sweeten some uneasy Reflections upon Life; and that is, the natural Promptness of contracting Friendship. We shall find Men engaged in the closest Tyes of Good-will and Fidelity, from the purest Accidents imaginable, a Stage-Coach, or a Track-Scout.
'Tis true, as St Paul said to the Athenians, God made all Nations of one Blood; which shews a common Relation among Men, as well as an Equality: but how this Relation is minded, every body knows. The very words Relation and Blood are confin'd to certain narrow Degrees of Kindred, into which some Persons are admitted with great reluctancy, or truly because they cannot be disown'd.
And among those who admit each other into that Distinction, the Friendship is seldom very warm: so that we often find it the most hearty, when it has risen the most accidentally. I say, without Blood, without any Combination of Interest, any Design of overturning Governments, or of quietly making rich under them, or any private View whatsoever, we shall see Friendships contracted, which can only end with Death; if they end then."
Quote from a 1734 essay titled The Equality of Men by Nature by Alexander Forbes, Lord Pitsligo, who was in the Jacobite army in the '45. I like to think of Ewen talking with him. Yes, I did just work this into my poly fic (which is over 50K by now!). The library Alison inherited from her father can contain whatever I want it to. : )
What is a Track-Scout, though?
'Tis true, as St Paul said to the Athenians, God made all Nations of one Blood; which shews a common Relation among Men, as well as an Equality: but how this Relation is minded, every body knows. The very words Relation and Blood are confin'd to certain narrow Degrees of Kindred, into which some Persons are admitted with great reluctancy, or truly because they cannot be disown'd.
And among those who admit each other into that Distinction, the Friendship is seldom very warm: so that we often find it the most hearty, when it has risen the most accidentally. I say, without Blood, without any Combination of Interest, any Design of overturning Governments, or of quietly making rich under them, or any private View whatsoever, we shall see Friendships contracted, which can only end with Death; if they end then."
Quote from a 1734 essay titled The Equality of Men by Nature by Alexander Forbes, Lord Pitsligo, who was in the Jacobite army in the '45. I like to think of Ewen talking with him. Yes, I did just work this into my poly fic (which is over 50K by now!). The library Alison inherited from her father can contain whatever I want it to. : )
What is a Track-Scout, though?
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Date: 2020-12-08 04:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-12-08 05:16 pm (UTC)Ah!
Date: 2020-12-08 05:57 pm (UTC)Another version is "scow," a flat-bottomed boat (also applied to modern sailing recreational sailing vessels with keels). That rhymes with "cow" -- except in Scottish English, which the OED shows as /skʌʊ/.
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Date: 2020-12-08 10:37 pm (UTC)This made me laugh :)
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