The Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow: Comprising an Account of Its Ancient and Modern History, Its Trade, Manufactures, Commerce and Other ConcernsJohn Smith & Son, 1840 - 90 sider |
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Act of Parliament amounted appears appointed bank Barony Bills of Mortality Bishop Bishop of Glasgow boats bridge Burgh burial burying ground burying-ground Carstairs Castle Cathedral cattle chalder chapel city and suburbs City of Glasgow Clyde Navigation coach coal Committee Company cotton county of Lanark death Dennistoun Dumbarton Edinburgh engine England enumeration erected established feet wide Females Finlay firlot France gallon gentlemen Gorbals honour houses imperial improvement increase inhabitants iron James John Kirkman Finlay laid London Lord Justice Clerk Lord Provost Males manufacture merchants Messrs miles minister Monkland Canal Monteith neighbourhood number of persons parish period population Port-Dundas pounds procured river river Clyde Robert Royal Royal Burgh Rutherglen Saltmarket-Street Scotch Scotland Scots shillings society square yards Statistical steam vessels streets tion Tonnage tons Total Town Council Trongate Trustees Union University of Glasgow upwards vaccination William Wynds
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Side 18 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever : But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Side 36 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Side 18 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Side 36 - God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Side 47 - In other terms, the mortality of cities in England and Wales is high, but it may be immeasurably reduced. A good, general system of sewers ; the intersection of the dense, crowded districts of the metropolis by a few spacious streets; and a park in the East end of London would probably diminish the annual deaths by seveial thousands, prevent many years of sickness, and add several years to the lives of the entire population.
Side 18 - Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest ? The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind their country — Israel but the grave !
Side 18 - Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears : for thy work* shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Side 36 - There have likewise been some who have ventured as far as Barbadoes, but the loss which they sustained, by being obliged to come home late in the year, has made them discontinue going thither any more. The mercantile genius of the people is strong, if they were not checked and kept under by...
Side 86 - And we entreat all authorized practitioners throughout the country to follow our example, and adopt the same practice, and so assist in establishing a better Registration, in future, throughout England...
Side 74 - They had occasionally their relations dining with them, and gave them a few plain dishes, put on the table at once, holding in derision the attention which they said their neighbours, the English, bestowed on what they ate. After dinner the husband went to his place of business, and in the evening to a club in a public-house, where, with little expense, he...