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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 173
by James Boswell - 1786 - 442 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 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 duffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 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 dnffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 948 pages
...looks," wh: b our popular Scotch song has justly attribir.ii to that character. He had his tartan ph. a thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade, a brown j short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waist- I coat with gold buttons...
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The Sunshine of Domestic Life; Or, Sketches of Womanly Virtues, and Stories ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 314 pages
...looks " which our popular Scotch song has justly attributed to that character.' When Boswell saw him, 'he had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of dapple, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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The History and Traditions of the Isle of Skye

Alexander Cameron - 1871 - 180 pages
...Highlander, exhibiting ' the graceful mien and manly looks' which our popular Scotch songs have 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 book of Scottish anecdote, collected and ed. by A. Hislop

Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...Highlander, exhibiting " the graceful mien, and manly looks," which the 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 349 like a cockade, a brown short coat, of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistcoat, with gold button...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1884 - 544 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 duffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1885 - 454 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 VOL. V. K brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold...
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Transactions, Volumes 13-14

1888 - 920 pages
...Highlander, exhibiting the graceful mien and manly looks which our popular Scottish song has justly attributed to that character. He had his tartan plaid...a knot of black ribband, like a cockade ; a brown short coat of a kind of diffil ; a tartan waistcoat, with gold buttons and gold button holes ; a bluish...
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Transactions, Volume 14

Inverness Gaelic Society - 1889 - 436 pages
...Highlander, exhibiting the graceful mien and manly looks, which our popular Scottish song has justly attributed to that character. He had his tartan plaid...a knot of black ribband, like a cockade ; a brown short coat of a kind of diffil ; a tartan waistcoat, with gold buttons and gold button holes ; a bluish...
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