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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... feet deep , having a ri- vulet running through its bottom ; its banks being so steep , that they can only be descended in an oblique di- rection by tracks or paths , whence it derives its name , the word Peath signifying , as it is said ...
... feet deep , having a ri- vulet running through its bottom ; its banks being so steep , that they can only be descended in an oblique di- rection by tracks or paths , whence it derives its name , the word Peath signifying , as it is said ...
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... feet in the earth , was suffered to remain in its place . This last stone having been examined , was found to be hollowed out , and of the capacity and shape proper to its being used as the under part of a corn hand- mill of a large ...
... feet in the earth , was suffered to remain in its place . This last stone having been examined , was found to be hollowed out , and of the capacity and shape proper to its being used as the under part of a corn hand- mill of a large ...
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... feet , the thickness of the wall 7 feet , the space between the innermost and the second wall 7 feet , between that and the third or outer wall 10 feet ; the spaces between these walls have been arched over , and divided into cells of ...
... feet , the thickness of the wall 7 feet , the space between the innermost and the second wall 7 feet , between that and the third or outer wall 10 feet ; the spaces between these walls have been arched over , and divided into cells of ...
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... 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 union of the two kingdoms , had been used as a place of defence to which the inhabitants of this part of the ...
... 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 union of the two kingdoms , had been used as a place of defence to which the inhabitants of this part of the ...
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... feet beneath the surface ; which is a clear proof that there have been many more cells of a similar 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 ...
... feet beneath the surface ; which is a clear proof that there have been many more cells of a similar 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 ...
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abbey abounds acres Agricul agriculture Airshire ancient Annandale Antiquities appears banks beautiful Berwickshire border building built Burns called Carrick castle cattle chalybeate church Closeburn coal coast considerable Crichton crop dike distance district Dumfries Dumfriesshire Earl east Edinburgh England English erected expence farm farmers feet formerly free-stone Galloway grain grass ground height hill inches inhabitants Jedburgh King Kirkcudbright land Langholm late lime loch Lord lord of Galloway manufactures Maybole miles Minerals moss mountains neighbourhood neighbouring Nithsdale oats parish Peebles persons plants plough Population possessed potatoes proprietors quantity remains remarkable rises river river Annan river Nith river Tweed road rock Roxburghshire ruins Saltcoats Sanquhar Scotland Scots Scottish sheep shire side situated soil Solway Frith stands stewartry stewartry of Kirkcudbright stone thirlage tion tower town ture turnip Tweed village walls whole Wigton wood
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Page 515 - 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 526 - 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 gat heriag fast,* when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.
Page 516 - 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.
Page 516 - 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 526 - 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 522 - They committed to memory the hymns, and other poems of that collection, with uncommon facility. This facility was partly owing to the method pursued by their father and me in instructing them, which was, to make them thoroughly acquainted with the meaning of every word in each sentence that was to be committed to memory.
Page 337 - Navarre that day six weeks, by nine o'clock in the morning, where 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.
Page 515 - 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 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 534 - ... dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the rest of his insignificant existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the vilest of mankind.