...large, and was built with more attention to security than pleasure. Cardinal Beatoun is said to have had workmen employed in improving its fortifications,...murdered by the ruffians of reformation, in the manner in which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative. 'The change of religion in Scotland,...

...was murdered by the ruffians of reformation, in the manner in which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative. 'The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was, raised an epidemical enthusiasm, compounded of sullen scrupulousness and warlike ferocity, which, in...

...large, and was built with more attention to security than pleasure. Cardinal Beaton is said to have had workmen employed in improving its fortifications...reformation, in the manner of which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative. The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was,...

...large, and was built with more attention to security than pleasure. Cardinal Beatoun is said to have had workmen employed in improving its fortifications...reformation, in the manner of which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative. The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was,...

...Johnson was wary of any religious 'enthusiasm'; and this is what he wrote about Scottish Presbyterianism: The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was, raised an epidemical enthusiasm, compounded of sullen scrupulousness and warlike ferocity, which, in...

...which Cardinal Beaton was murdered. " The Cardinal was murdered," says Dr. Johnson in his Journey, " by the ruffians of reformation, in the manner of which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative." Writing to a friend at Milan he says, " If I were to visit Italy,...