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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... persons reside who are accustomed to hazard any thing in pursuit of mineral riches , it is probable also that a suit- able expenditure of capital was wanting . At one time , some cart - loads of ore were dug up in making a road . Some ...
... persons reside who are accustomed to hazard any thing in pursuit of mineral riches , it is probable also that a suit- able expenditure of capital was wanting . At one time , some cart - loads of ore were dug up in making a road . Some ...
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... persons subject to chronic disorders , may by a course of these waters reap every advantage to be procured by any chalybeate water whatever . This spring , however , has of late years been much neglected . Springs at In the parish of ...
... persons subject to chronic disorders , may by a course of these waters reap every advantage to be procured by any chalybeate water whatever . This spring , however , has of late years been much neglected . Springs at In the parish of ...
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... persons , and the time when the transaction happened . There is little doubt , however , that something remarkable occurred at the place now mentioned , as it was customary for our ancestors to adopt this mode of transmitting to ...
... persons , and the time when the transaction happened . There is little doubt , however , that something remarkable occurred at the place now mentioned , as it was customary for our ancestors to adopt this mode of transmitting to ...
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... person visible ( though in ashes ) , the late Sir John Paterson had the curiosity to collect the whole , and ( wonderful to tell ! ) it did not exceed in weight an ounce and a half . Ancient In the same parish is a monument erected to ...
... person visible ( though in ashes ) , the late Sir John Paterson had the curiosity to collect the whole , and ( wonderful to tell ! ) it did not exceed in weight an ounce and a half . Ancient In the same parish is a monument erected to ...
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... person is in such small quantities as to make the dressing and keep- ing together the different parcels very troublesome . There is a considerable bleachfield at Dunse ; but in general , this county has been found still more ...
... person is in such small quantities as to make the dressing and keep- ing together the different parcels very troublesome . There is a considerable bleachfield at Dunse ; but in general , this county has been found still more ...
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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.