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Odours and Perfumes (Having no thought)

having no thought of the difficult, toilsome trampings of his ancestors. Sydney Smith and his associates, on first starting the Edinburgh Review (1802), proposed as its motto Virgil's wellknown line from the first Æneid" Tenui musam meditamur avend"-"We cultivate literature on a spare diet of Oatmeal." Carlyle, at Lord Ashburton's house, "The Grange," caught sight of Macaulay's face in unwonted repose as he was turning over the pages of a book. "I noticed," said he, "the homely Norse features that you find everywhere in the Western Isles, and I thought to myself, 'Well! anyone can see that you're an honest, good sort of fellow, made out of Oatmeal.'" Sydney Smith called Scotland "that garret of the earth, that knuckleend of England, that land of Calvin, Oat-cakes, and Sulphur." During the Commonwealth, Porridge was the nickname given by the Dissenters to the Book of Common Prayer.