Status Updates From John Burnet of Barns

P285 philosopher who has a “muster view and a clearer insight” through living it.

280 virtue of the ages

P277 “and that fair river wandering by wood and heather, and my lady by my side, was not that sufficient for any man? The purple, airy ,odorous with spring scents, clung around us, and in the pauses of silence the place was so still that our ears heard naught save the drawings of our breath.”

P272 virtue of honour and heart

P257-ride in the black night, cold plunge into water

“Courage grows strong at a wound”

John’s battle within- that of a scholar, that of his father’s son, and that of the gentleman.

A long journey and a parting

P163 John with the Covenanters.

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p73 Nicol Plenderleith-announcer of the flood and defender of the dog comes to join John.

P36 Descartes

P 24 “But the faintest interest is better than purposeless idleness”