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" Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance. "
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 213
by James Boswell - 1785 - 524 pages
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...fafely arrived at Kingfburgh, and received by the hofpitable Mr. Macdonald, who, with a moft refpectful attention, fupported him into the houfe. Kingfburgh...cockade, a brown fhort coat of a kind of duffil, a Tartan waiftcoat with gold buttons, and gold button-holes, a bluiflx, philibeg, and Tartan hofe. He had jet...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...Highlander, — exhibiting 'the graceful mien and manly looks',' which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his Tartan plaid...with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a Tartan waistcoast with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...Highlander, — exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks/' which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his Tartan plaid...with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...Highlander, — -exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks," which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his Tartan plaid...with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown, short coat of a kind of duffil, a Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...Highlander, — exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks," which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his Tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet witli a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown , short coat of a kind of duffil, a Tartan waistcoat...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...Highlander,— exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks," which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his tartan plaid...about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duflfil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...Highlander, — exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks," which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his tartan plaid...about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of dullil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...exhibiting " the graceful mien and manly looks," which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to thnt accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and riband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of dulfil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 310 pages
...Highlander, exhibiting < the graceful mien and manly looks,' which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character. He had his tartan plaid...about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duiHl, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: Lord George Murray. James ...

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1846 - 552 pages
..." When receiving Dr. Johnson in after-years, Kingsburgh appeared in true Highland costume, with his plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribbon like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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