text:  The new machinery (created by Parliament in order to meet the wishes of the Scottish nation ) the money of that nation the awakened zeal of that nation; all these were employed honourably in one sense that is not turned aside into private channels for purposes of individuals but factiously in the result as being for the benefit of a faction; honourably as regarded the open _mode_ of applying such influence--a mode which did not shrink from exposure; but most dishonourably in so far as privileges which had been conceded altogether for a spiritual object were abusively transferred to the furtherance of a temporal intrigue