...which indeed is a noble foundation : hut the house neither of that, nor Christ's Church, or any thing of that kind at Rome or Venice comes not up to the...stately garden, fenced round with a curious wall of ashler work, together with a handsome chapel and hall for the poor people and boys to eat in. Divine...

...to the magnificence of this building,—when it is finished, resembling more like a palace than the habitation for necessitous old people and children....Edinburgh, is more embellished over the windows thereof(!)" SIR GEORGE ELPHINSTON'S HOUSE AND CHAPEL IN GORBALS. Sir George Elphinston, who acquired the lands...

...Church, or anything of that kind at Rome or Venice, comes not up to the magnificence of this building, resembling more like a palace than a habitation for...and hall for the poor people and boys to eat in." As the inventing of conundrums is at present all the rage in Glasgow, I shall conclude this rambling...

...which indeed is a noble foundation : but the house neither of that, nor Christ's Church, or any thing of that kind at Rome or Venice, comes not up to the...stately garden, fenced round with a curious wall of ashler work, together with a handsome chapel and hall for the poor people and boys to eat in." While...

...Clyde, a little west from the Stockwell. It was an imposing structure, " resembling," says M'Ure, " more like a palace than a habitation for necessitous old people and children." This institution, in some of its features, anticipated the modern workhouse, though in others it differed...