My Aunt Margaret's Mirror. Вальтер Скотт

will of the nation, as declared at the Revolution. I am none of your JURE DIVINO folks.”

      “And a Jacobite notwithstanding.”

      “And a Jacobite notwithstanding – or rather, I will give you leave to call me one of the party which, in Queen Anne’s time, were called, WHIMSICALS, because they were sometimes operated upon by feelings, sometimes by principle. After all, it is very hard that you will not allow an old woman to be as inconsistent in her political sentiments as mankind in general show themselves in all the various courses of life; since you cannot point out one of them in which the passions and prejudices of those who pursue it are not perpetually carrying us away from the path which our reason points out.”