Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political and Social, Literary and ScientificAdam & Charles Black, 1862 - 495 sider |
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... Scotland in 1633 , to " reduce the kirk to conformity . " James IV . brought his shavelings with him to the far north , to patter masses and chant matins . Charles brought with him a much more dangerous man than all the shavelings of ...
... Scotland in 1633 , to " reduce the kirk to conformity . " James IV . brought his shavelings with him to the far north , to patter masses and chant matins . Charles brought with him a much more dangerous man than all the shavelings of ...
Side 10
... Scotland , from Fergus downward . A fountain at the cross ran with wine for the benefit of the lieges ; and Bacchus , large as life , superintended the distribution of the liquor . The Muses made themselves visible in Hunter Square ...
... Scotland , from Fergus downward . A fountain at the cross ran with wine for the benefit of the lieges ; and Bacchus , large as life , superintended the distribution of the liquor . The Muses made themselves visible in Hunter Square ...
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Hugh Miller. Scotland discoursed of war and conquest in the middle of the West Bow , classic arches of lath strided over the odorife- rous Cranes , -festoons of flowers hung romantically above the unsullied waters of the Nor ' - Loch ...
Hugh Miller. Scotland discoursed of war and conquest in the middle of the West Bow , classic arches of lath strided over the odorife- rous Cranes , -festoons of flowers hung romantically above the unsullied waters of the Nor ' - Loch ...
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... Scotland . - September 10 , 1842 . THE INFANT PRINCE . A PRINCE born to the throne of Great Britain ! The firing of cannon , the ringing of bells , the crackling of fire - works , the blazing of bonfires , holiday dresses and holiday ...
... Scotland . - September 10 , 1842 . THE INFANT PRINCE . A PRINCE born to the throne of Great Britain ! The firing of cannon , the ringing of bells , the crackling of fire - works , the blazing of bonfires , holiday dresses and holiday ...
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... Scotland , as with the better English historians , Charles I. does not stand high . Such was the character of his government , that they had as one man to take up arms against it ; and it is known that , save for their success on that ...
... Scotland , as with the better English historians , Charles I. does not stand high . Such was the character of his government , that they had as one man to take up arms against it ; and it is known that , save for their success on that ...
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Side 255 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Side 226 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Side 479 - Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded in full bloom, Shine out ; there only reach their proper use.
Side 429 - THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time ; with Chapters on the Geography and Natural History of the Country, the Customs and Institutions of the Hebrews.
Side 33 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Side 265 - Road, and Finchley Common, on the great Northern Road, were perhaps the most celebrated of these spots. The Cambridge scholars trembled when they approached Epping Forest, even in broad daylight. Seamen who had just been paid off at Chatham were often compelled to deliver their purses on Gadshill, celebrated near a hundred years earlier by the greatest of poets as the scene of the depredations of Falstaff.
Side 116 - Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they...
Side 221 - ... the exigencies of their situation^ and in the way of affording assistance. And, therefore, when the partition of property is rigidly maintained against the claims of indigence and distress, it is maintained in opposition to the intention of those who made it, and to his, who is the Supreme Proprietor of every thing, and who has filled the world with plenteousness for the sustentation and comfort of all whom he sends into it.
Side 14 - These things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations ; but yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Side 412 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...