 | Donald Monro - 1774 - 240 pages
...big houfes of ftone were made with hands; and for the pavements of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether natural, for he could not believe that men would be at the pains to beat ftones into the ground to walk upon. He flood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greateft admiration... | |
 | John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...big houfes of ftone were made with hands ; and for the pavements of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether natural ; for he could not believe that men would be at the pains to beat ftones into the ground to walk upon. He flood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greateft admiration... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 632 pages
...hands ; and, for the pave' menu of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether na« tural ; for he could not believe that men would be at the pains ' to beat Hones into the ground to walk upon. He flood dumb at ' the door of his lodging with the greateit admiration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...hands ; and, for the pave* ments of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether na* tural ; for he could not believe that men would be at the pains * to beat ftones into the ground to walk upon. He flood dumb at ' the door of his lodging with the greateft admiration... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...; and, for the pave• ments of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether na' • tural ; for he could not believe that men would be at the pains * to beat flones into the ground to walk upon. He flood dumb at ' the door of his lodging with the greateft admiration... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...big houfes of (tone were made with hands ; and for the pavements of the ftreets, he thought it muft needs be altogether natural ; for he could not believe that men would be at the pains to beat (tones into the ground to walk upon. He ftood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greateft admiration... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - Clans - 1886 - 592 pages
...Glasgow, he was like one that had dropped from the clouds into a new world, whose language, habits, &c., were in all respects new to him ; he never imagined...and two horses, he thought it to be a little house they were drawing at their tail, with men in it; but he condemned the coachman for a fool to sit so... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...exceeded his own little native country. Upon his arrival at Glasgow, he was like one that had dropt tur virum Nee parcit imbellis juventae Poplitibus,...imitation or rather paraphrase of my own,' said Jones : ' stono into the ground to walk upon. He stood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greatest admiration... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...big houses of stone were made та hands ; and for the pavements of the streets, he thought it пны l«at sluna into the ground to walk upon. He stood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greatest... | |
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... that such big houses of stone were made with hands; and for the pavements of the streets, he thought it must needs be altogether natural, for he could not believe that men would be at the pains to beat stones into the ground to walk upon. He stood... 