| H. R. Duff - Scotland - 1815 - 572 pages
...burne. Ther are burnt, by the easiest computation, betwixt 3 & 400 familys ; all the pryde of Edenr is sunk ; from the Cowgate to the High Street all is burnt, & hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, President of the Parl', Presl of the Session,... | |
| Archibald Campbell Swinton - 1858 - 108 pages
...are burnt, by the easiest computation, betwixt three and four hundred families. . . . All the pryde of Edinburgh is sunk ; from the Cowgate to the High Street all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another; " — adding, with reference to the escape of SirDavid Home, who, it appears, had... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1861 - 660 pages
...so thick.' i 'There are burnt, by the easiest computation, between three and four hundred families ; the pride of Edinburgh is sunk ; from the Cowgate...the High Street, all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, the President of Parliament, the President of the Court of Session... | |
| Law - 1862 - 720 pages
...burne. ' Ther are burnt, by the easiest computation, betwixt 3 and 400 familys : all the pryde of Edeur. is sunk ; from the Cowgate to the High Street all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, President of the Parliament, President of the Session, the Bank,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1874 - 658 pages
...so thick.'* ' There are burnt, by the easiest computation, between three and four hundred families; the pride of Edinburgh is sunk; from the Cowgate to...the High Street, all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, the President of Parliament, the President of the Court of Session... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1885 - 426 pages
...so thick.' ' There are burnt, by the easiest computation, between three and four hundred families ; the pride of Edinburgh is sunk ; from the Cowgate...the High Street, all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, the President of Parliament, the President of the Court of Session... | |
| William Graham - Bank notes - 1911 - 468 pages
...fire, Forbes of Culloden says: "Ther are burnt, betwixt 3 and 400 familys ; all the pryde of Eden r is sunk ; from the Cowgate to the High Street all is burnt, and hardly one stone left upon another. The Commissioner, President of the Parl* President of the Session, the Bank, most... | |
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