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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... spring in the parish of Dunse Edrom . As it is only about a mile distant from the vil - spaw . lage of Dunse , it has received the appellation of the Dunse spaw . It was discovered in 1747 , and was very much re- sorted to for several ...
... spring in the parish of Dunse Edrom . As it is only about a mile distant from the vil - spaw . lage of Dunse , it has received the appellation of the Dunse spaw . It was discovered in 1747 , and was very much re- sorted to for several ...
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... spring , however , has of late years been much neglected . Springs at In the parish of Churnside , three springs of water are Churnside . worthy of notice . Two of them rise a little westward of the churchyard , and have this ...
... spring , however , has of late years been much neglected . Springs at In the parish of Churnside , three springs of water are Churnside . worthy of notice . Two of them rise a little westward of the churchyard , and have this ...
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... spring tides is said to be twenty feet , and there is at the lowest ebb several feet of water at low wa- ter between the proposed pier - head ; so that there will be seldom less at neap tides than 16 or 17 feet of water in the harbour ...
... spring tides is said to be twenty feet , and there is at the lowest ebb several feet of water at low wa- ter between the proposed pier - head ; so that there will be seldom less at neap tides than 16 or 17 feet of water in the harbour ...
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... spring . They vegetate with the slightest pos- sible degree of heat , which exposes them to be destroy- ed by the unsteadiness of our climate . The thorn is not so delicate in this respect , because it has acquired the habits requisite ...
... spring . They vegetate with the slightest pos- sible degree of heat , which exposes them to be destroy- ed by the unsteadiness of our climate . The thorn is not so delicate in this respect , because it has acquired the habits requisite ...
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... springs near the town of Jed- springs . burgh ; and there are appearances of more in different places of the parish ... spring supposed to be chalybeate , in which many persons have great faith for the cure of scorbutic complaints ; but ...
... springs near the town of Jed- springs . burgh ; and there are appearances of more in different places of the parish ... spring supposed to be chalybeate , in which many persons have great faith for the cure of scorbutic complaints ; but ...
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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.