I am quite convinced that much of the old quaint and characteristic Scottish talk which we are now endeavouring to recall depended on a happy use of those abstracts of moral sentiment.

And this feeling will be confirmed when we call to mind how often those of the old Scottish school of character, whose conversation we have ourselves admired, had most largely availed themselves of the use of its _proverbial_ philosophy.
I have already spoken of (p.

16) a Scottish peculiarity--viz.

that of naming individuals from lands which have been possessed long by the family, or frequently from the landed estates which they acquire.

The use of this mode of discriminating individuals in the Highland districts is sufficiently obvious.