1. His grace was more permeating because it found a readier medium.

2. Walter Scott was all but a dunce when a boy, always much readier for a “Bicker,” than apt at his lessons.

3. He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, Aggrandised by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous past.