The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ...Thomson Bonar and John Brown [and 7 others], 1805 - 547 páginas |
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... called the Merse , stone quarries are rather scarce - a circumstance which has given rise to the practice of enclosing by hedges and ditches . In general , the only minerals which are to be found are free - stone ( that is sand - stone ) ...
... called the Merse , stone quarries are rather scarce - a circumstance which has given rise to the practice of enclosing by hedges and ditches . In general , the only minerals which are to be found are free - stone ( that is sand - stone ) ...
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... called carbonic acid . This Like most other chalybeate waters , it does not carry well , unless the same methods are practised as in transporting the foreign chalybeate waters . Although the water may be thus carried to a great distance ...
... called carbonic acid . This Like most other chalybeate waters , it does not carry well , unless the same methods are practised as in transporting the foreign chalybeate waters . Although the water may be thus carried to a great distance ...
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... called , is a corruption of Coldbrand's path , as it seems from many circumstances to be , this was once a place of great note and consequence . Concerning it the follow- ing particulars occur in history . Antiquities . According to ...
... called , is a corruption of Coldbrand's path , as it seems from many circumstances to be , this was once a place of great note and consequence . Concerning it the follow- ing particulars occur in history . Antiquities . According to ...
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... called Chesterknows . The grinder was first discovered by a neighbouring gentleman , Captain Hume . His attention was called to it , by observing a ma- son's brush stuck into a stone , which had a hole in it , with- out having been ...
... called Chesterknows . The grinder was first discovered by a neighbouring gentleman , Captain Hume . His attention was called to it , by observing a ma- son's brush stuck into a stone , which had a hole in it , with- out having been ...
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... called pudding- stone . It is remarkably hard , and can be cut like marble ; and even resists fire . The two piers were built of it , which stand both weather and water , without the least ap- pearance of waste . There are some ...
... called pudding- stone . It is remarkably hard , and can be cut like marble ; and even resists fire . The two piers were built of it , which stand both weather and water , without the least ap- pearance of waste . There are some ...
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Página 506 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 505 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Página 506 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
Página 510 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail...
Página 506 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Página 510 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The Gloomy Night Is Gathering Fast,
Página 322 - Navarre, that day six weeks, by nine o'clock in the morning, when he would attend them and be ready to answer to whatever should be proposed to him in any art or science, and in any of these twelve languages : Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, English, Dutch, Flemish, and Sclavonian ; and this either in verse or prose, at the discretion of the disputant.
Página 106 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons...
Página 508 - Ayr; and in 1773 Robert Burns came to board and lodge with me for the purpose of revising English grammar, &c., that he might be better qualified to instruct his brothers and sisters at home. He was now with me day and night, in school, at all meals, and in all my walks.
Página 508 - Robert, and his younger brother Gilbert, had been grounded a little in English before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences, 8cc.