QUOTES: Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, 1814, Vol.1, Ch.6

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"[...] his learning was more diffuse than accurate[...]"

Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, Vol.1, Ch.6, 1814

"But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings[...]"

Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, Vol.1, Ch.6, 1814

"I gave him a dinner once a week; but, Lord love you, what's once a week, when a man does not know where to go the other six days?"
Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, Vol.1, Ch.6, 1814

"As the public were thus likely to be deprived of the benefit arising from his lucubrations by the selfish cowardice of the trade, Mr. Pembroke resolved to make two copies of these tremendous manuscripts for the use of his pupil. He felt that he had been indolent as a tutor, and, besides, his conscience checked him for complying with the request of Mr. Richard Waverley, that he would impress no sentiments upon Edward's mind inconsistent with the present settlement in church and state. But now, thought he, I may, without breach of my word, since he is no longer under my tuition, afford the youth the means of judging for himself, and have only to dread his reproaches for so long concealing the light which the perusal will flash upon his mind. While he thus indulged the reveries of an author and a politician, his darling proselyte, seeing nothing very inviting in the title of the tracts, and appalled by the bulk and compact lines of the manuscript, quietly consigned them to a corner of his travelling trunk."

Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, Vol.1, Ch.6, 1814