Nith, River, 220, 226, 245 Niven, William, 56, 61, 63 Norval, Charles, 85 _Observations on the Scottish Dialect_ (Sinclair), 29-30 Ochiltree, 244 Ochiltree, Edie, 188, 305 Ochtertyre, 256, 287 ‘Of a’ the airts,’ 149, 174 Oldbuck, Jonathan, 265 Old Lights, 21-23, 66-67, 75-78, 279-287 _On God’s Sovereignty_, 281 _On the Death of Lord President Dundas_, 107 ‘O poortith cauld,’ 271 _Ordination, The_, 76 Orr, Thomas, 61 _Ossian_ (Macpherson), 27, 43 Oswald, James, 27 Oswald, Mary Ramsay, of Auchencruive, 144 Oswald, Richard, of Auchencruive, 291 ‘O wat ye wha that lo’es me,’ 110 ‘O wert thou in the cauld blast,’ 251, 277 Paine, Thomas, 226, 290 Paisley, 167, 198, 306 Palmer, Thomas Fyshe, 293, 294 _Pamela_, 58 _Pantheon, The_ (Tooke), 49 Park, Anne, 146, 148, 174 Park, Mungo, 303 Parliament, 3-4, 5-6, 289, 290-294, 295, 302 Parnell, Charles Stuart, 4 Paton, Elizabeth, 74, 76, 138-139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 148, 150, 193, 194, 203 Patriotism, Burns’s, 234, 278, 287-306 Patronage, Kirk, 22 Pattison, Alexander, 198 Peacock, --, 80, 83 _Peggy Bawn_, 236 Percy, Thomas, 25, 43 Perry, James, 206 _Philosophy of Natural History_ (Smellie), 105 ‘Pindar, Peter.’ _See_ Wolcot, John Pinkerton, John, 43 Pitt, William, 226, 290 _Plane-stanes and the Causey, The_, 248 Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph, 268, 270 _Poems_, Burns’s, Kilmarnock ed., 29, 82, 94, 98, 118, 139, 142, 154, 191, 193-196, 202, 239, 244, 247-249 _Poems_, Burns’s, 1st Edinburgh ed., 95, 98, 105, 106, 118, 127, 195-201, 203, 254 _Poems_, Burns’s, 2nd Edinburgh ed., 204-205 _Poems_, Burns’s, Gilbert Burns’s ed., 203 _Poet’s Progress, The_, 234 _Poet’s Welcome to his Bastart Wean, A_, 111, 150 Politics, Burns’s, 102, 131, 225-226, 230-231, 278, 287-299 Poosie Nansie, 57 Pope, Alexander, 42, 49, 60, 181, 216 Port Antonio, 192 Potterrow, Edinburgh, 165 _Prayer in the Prospect of Death_, 84 Preaching, Scottish, 19-20 _Prelude_ (Wordsworth), 234 Prestonpans, 26 Prior, Matthew, 42 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 8 Provençal, 23 _Psalms_, 40, 135, 151, 236 Puritanism, 16-17 Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 225 Raeburn, Sir Henry, 107 Ramsay, Allan, 23-25, 75, 91, 104, 247, 248-249, 252, 301, 304 Ramsay, David, 288 Ramsay, John, 287 Rankine, Anne, 68 Rankine, John, 74, 77, 98, 249 _Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin_, 307 ‘Rape of the Sabines, The,’ 122, 180-181 Reformation, Scottish, 23, 290 Regency Bill, 226 Reid, Alexander, 183, 229 Religion, 59 Religion, Burns’s, 278-287 _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_ (Percy), 25, 43 Revolution of 1688, 288-289 Riccarton, 76 Richardson, Samuel, 58 Richmond, John, 13, 65, 89-90, 112, 141, 143, 144, 147, 151 Riddell, Elizabeth Kennedy (Mrs. Robert), 177, 181, 182 Riddell, Jean Fergusson, 177