Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces: With Letters Containing a Comparative View of the Modes of Living, Arts, Commerce, Literature, Manners, &c. of Edinburgh, at Different PeriodsA collection of essays which mostly appeared in the Edinburgh Courant, the Caledonian Mercury, and the Edinburgh Gazette; edited and for the most part writtten by William Creech. |
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... There is prefixed , a short Account of Mr CREECH'S Life , to- gether with his Portrait , engraved from an excellent picture , painted by Mr Raeburn in the year 1806 . Edinburgh , August 1815 . CONTENTS . LIFE of Mr Creech ...
... There is prefixed , a short Account of Mr CREECH'S Life , to- gether with his Portrait , engraved from an excellent picture , painted by Mr Raeburn in the year 1806 . Edinburgh , August 1815 . CONTENTS . LIFE of Mr Creech ...
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... short period at one of the schools in the town of Perth . They soon , however , re- turned to Dalkeith , where Mr Creech received an ex- cellent education at the school of Mr Barclay , who was one of the ablest and most successful ...
... short period at one of the schools in the town of Perth . They soon , however , re- turned to Dalkeith , where Mr Creech received an ex- cellent education at the school of Mr Barclay , who was one of the ablest and most successful ...
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... short time before his death . Those which have been preserved are too desultory and uncon- nected to form now any object of peculiar interest , and it might be improper to lengthen out a mere sketch of this kind by introducing them . We ...
... short time before his death . Those which have been preserved are too desultory and uncon- nected to form now any object of peculiar interest , and it might be improper to lengthen out a mere sketch of this kind by introducing them . We ...
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... short and imper . fect sketch of Mr Creech's life is prefixed . As a private citizen , Mr Creech was both respectable and useful . Independently of his duties while officiating as a magistrate , his assistance as a man of education and ...
... short and imper . fect sketch of Mr Creech's life is prefixed . As a private citizen , Mr Creech was both respectable and useful . Independently of his duties while officiating as a magistrate , his assistance as a man of education and ...
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... short time previous to their intended union , died on the eve of her departure for Lisbon , where her phy- sicians had some hopes she might recover . This disap- pointment made a deep and permanent impression on Mr Creech's mind . To ...
... short time previous to their intended union , died on the eve of her departure for Lisbon , where her phy- sicians had some hopes she might recover . This disap- pointment made a deep and permanent impression on Mr Creech's mind . To ...
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Page 230 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, — 'tis nought to me : Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 138 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 149 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 97 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 253 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 170 - Free and unquestion'd, through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerve from, virtue's rule, If, strongly charm'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray, Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame: In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more.
Page 175 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 200 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 332 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, 40 they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 179 - She never interrupted any person who spoke; she laughed at no mistakes they made, but helped them out with modesty; and if a good thing were spoken, but neglected, she would not let it fall, but set it in the best light to those who were present.