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 ... |
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... kind , has Gypsum been found on the banks of the Whitatter . Plaster has been made of it for ceilings for rooms , and has been found little inferior to Paris plaster or very good stucco . It is a general rule with regard to this county ...
... kind , has Gypsum been found on the banks of the Whitatter . Plaster has been made of it for ceilings for rooms , and has been found little inferior to Paris plaster or very good stucco . It is a general rule with regard to this county ...
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... kind they have been . Cranshaws castle , the pro- perty of Mr Watson of Saughton , is an oblong square of 40 feet by 24. The walls are 45 feet high ; and it has a battlement on the top . It is a very ancient building ; and , before the ...
... kind they have been . Cranshaws castle , the pro- perty of Mr Watson of Saughton , is an oblong square of 40 feet by 24. The walls are 45 feet high ; and it has a battlement on the top . It is a very ancient building ; and , before the ...
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... kind , unsupported by accounts from history , it is almost unnecessary to remark , that little dependence can be pla- · ced ; especially as , in this case , the tradition is entirely si- lent with regard to the quality of the persons ...
... kind , unsupported by accounts from history , it is almost unnecessary to remark , that little dependence can be pla- · ced ; especially as , in this case , the tradition is entirely si- lent with regard to the quality of the persons ...
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... kind to the former ; and as the ground , when turned up , exhibits only a mixture of sand , lime , and earth , it appears to be nothing but the rubbish of the fallen vaults . It is said that the principal entrance to the nunnery was ...
... kind to the former ; and as the ground , when turned up , exhibits only a mixture of sand , lime , and earth , it appears to be nothing but the rubbish of the fallen vaults . It is said that the principal entrance to the nunnery was ...
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... kind of stone has been found there , which is not to be seen in any other part of the country , except in the bed of the ri- ver Whitatter ; from whence they must have been brought a distance of near four miles , and all uphill ; which ...
... kind of stone has been found there , which is not to be seen in any other part of the country , except in the bed of the ri- ver Whitatter ; from whence they must have been brought a distance of near four miles , and all uphill ; which ...
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Page 513 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Page 118 - 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...
Page 514 - 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 "...
Page 513 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page; How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 514 - 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.
Page 524 - 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...
Page 118 - 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.
Page 513 - 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!
Page 519 - My pupil, Robert Burns, was then between six and seven years of age, his preceptor about eighteen. 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...
Page 343 - Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other.