The Scotsman's Library: Being a Collection of Anecdotes and Facts Illustrative of Scotland and ScotsmenJ. Anderson, 1825 - 740 стор. |
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... carried this interesting piece of intelli- crowd drew near with their captive . The horror gence to his brother , and both of them mentioned of the multitude was communicated to them , it , by way of good joke , to their mother , the ...
... carried this interesting piece of intelli- crowd drew near with their captive . The horror gence to his brother , and both of them mentioned of the multitude was communicated to them , it , by way of good joke , to their mother , the ...
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... carried on with a prudence , not common in popular com- motions . Disappointed in their endeavours to discover the perpetrators , the court determined to punish the magistrates , and the city at large . Alexander Wilson , who was ...
... carried on with a prudence , not common in popular com- motions . Disappointed in their endeavours to discover the perpetrators , the court determined to punish the magistrates , and the city at large . Alexander Wilson , who was ...
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... carried off , at an early age , to the after he had returned to the manse , a servant came , Fairy Land , where he acquired all the knowledge , and told him that Rob Roy was at the door , and which made him afterwards so famous . After ...
... carried off , at an early age , to the after he had returned to the manse , a servant came , Fairy Land , where he acquired all the knowledge , and told him that Rob Roy was at the door , and which made him afterwards so famous . After ...
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... carried in the way to Lanark , the chief market - town in that county : 90 hoping to draw forth the captain by that bait , and either to take him or the castle , or both . Neither was this expectation frustrated , for the captain did ...
... carried in the way to Lanark , the chief market - town in that county : 90 hoping to draw forth the captain by that bait , and either to take him or the castle , or both . Neither was this expectation frustrated , for the captain did ...
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... carried one hundred yards into the garden . At Cupar , on the 30th of April , 1735 , a blacksmith , while employed in shoeing a horse before the door of his workshop , was struck down in the street , and instanty expired . - About ...
... carried one hundred yards into the garden . At Cupar , on the 30th of April , 1735 , a blacksmith , while employed in shoeing a horse before the door of his workshop , was struck down in the street , and instanty expired . - About ...
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Сторінка 76 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Сторінка 461 - And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud ; and their enemies beheld them.
Сторінка 94 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach...
Сторінка 503 - Dissertations" to the author, and complimented him with possessing " the true theatric genius of Shakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and licentiousness of the other.
Сторінка 316 - We have said that Mr. Watt was the great improver of the steam-engine; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...
Сторінка 238 - The whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end, all along the roof, to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage...
Сторінка 554 - Stewart delivered from all her cares, and such an end put to her tedious sufferings, as she has long expected. Bear witness that I die constant in my religion ; firm in my fidelity towards Scotland ; and unchanged in my affection to France. Commend me to my son. Tell him I have done nothing injurious to his kingdom, to his honour, or to his rights ; and God forgive all those who have thirsted, without cause, for my blood.
Сторінка 233 - ... else except the vision, as long as it continues ; and then they appear pensive or jovial, according to the object which was represented to them.
Сторінка 10 - Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and hind had left the neighbouring forest, and were, composedly and slowly, parading the street of the village. The prophet instantly arose, left his habitation, and followed the wonderful animals to the forest, whence he was never seen to return. According to the popular belief, he still "drees his weird" in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit earth.
Сторінка 153 - Barbarous father, your cruelty in having put it out of my power ever to join my fate to that of the only man I could love, and tyrannically insisting upon my marrying one whom I always hated, has made me form a resolution to put an end to an existence which is become a burden to me.