Heraldry in Scotland : including a recension of 'The law and practice of heraldry in Scotland' by the late George Seton (1914)
Stevenson, J. H. (John Horne), 1855-1939, Seton, George, 1822-1908. Law and practice of heraldry in Scotland · Glasgow, J. Maclehose · leaf 46
hen was painting on it fancied arms, Azure, an eagle rising or, the sun In dexter chief; the scroll I follow fame. And speaking not, but leaning over him, I took his brush and blotted out the bird, And made a gardener putting in a graff, With this for motto, Rather use than fame.* The increasing… … merit, more than ever, the rebuke of his sprightly kinswoman: Not knowthe figures of heraldry, of what could your father be thinking ? ^ Without pausing to examine all the causes which contribute to thesurvival of the institution of arms and to the general estimation in whichthey have always been…
Heraldry
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