Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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TF I prove a man while I Hand, you will fufFer me to
■*• give up,
I knew it would be a kid that the goat would bring
forth.
Two-thirds of the company muft prevail in the point.
Arms procure refpttì.
5 You would wilh to fee my allies fcattered on the
ftream.
To bring two men together to knock them againft
each other.
The latter end of feven Saturdays be upon yon.
Complain to a man void of compafiion, and he'll tell
you, " You are poor."
acknowledge to be defcended of two brothers of old, and
confequently of the Macgregors. The well known faying,
"An t-Ab uaine Mac mlric Grigoira' Sron uaim," /'. e. the
pale coloured Abbot, fon of Macgregor, from Strcnuaim ;
together with that other faying, «' £ha robhbalach riamh do
chloinn Ghrigair, no caile do chloinn an Ab ;" i e. there
never was a clown of the Macgregors, nor a mean woman
of the Macnabbs,— -is a proof of this afferticn.
The perfon from whom they take that defignation wag'
Abbot, and afterwards Bifnop of Dunkeld.
It would appear that the Macaulays are not of the Mac-
gregors, as mentioned above. Buchannan of Achmar fays,
that they are defcended of the family of Lennox, in con-
firmation of which, he produces feveral charters, whereto
Auiay, the Earl's brother, is witnefs ; as a!fo the faid
Auiay's fon and fucceifor, defigned Duncan Macaulay, i.e.
Auiay's fon, knight ; they were afterwards defigned of
Arncaple. Hiji. of ' Macg Buch. of Achmar, Profejfor Rofs's
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