Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 33Society, 1899 - Archaeology Includes List of members. |
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Page 329 - Moreover, the number and hardness of the rules called the pie, and the manifold changings of the service, was the cause that to turn to the book only was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, than to read it when it was found out.
Page 524 - My heart, my mother; my heart, my mother ! My heart whereby I came into being ! May naught stand up to oppose me at my judgment ; may there be no opposition to me in the presence of the sovereign princes...
Page 141 - Library were laid on the table, and thanks voted to the donors...
Page 397 - James I. thus reproached the Scotch bishops, when they objected to his placing pictures and statues in his chapel at Edinburgh : " You can endure lions and dragons, (the supporters of the royal arms,) and devils, (Queen Elizabeth's griffins,) to be figured in your churches, but will not allow the like place to patriarchs and apostles.
Page 67 - ... and red. It reached from the neck to the heels, and was tied before on the breast with a buckle of silver, or brass, according to the quality of the person. I have seen some of the former of an hundred marks value; it was broad as any ordinary pewter plate, the whole curiously engraven with various animals, &c.
Page 45 - He spake, and heard Rodrigo's voice ; " O Father Eremite, He eats me now, he eats me now, I feel the adder's bite ; The part that was most sinning my bed-fellow doth rend...
Page 109 - ... crept down the street, which was lined with the audience, who, as if anxious to take the last sight of their heloved pastor, followed him until he entered his house, from which he never again came out alive.
Page 397 - ... a pair of organs, that cost above £400, besides all manner of furniture for a chapel, which Inigo Jones tells me he hath the charge of, with pictures of the apostles, Faith, Hope, and Charity, and such other religious representations, which how welcome they will be thither God knows.
Page 264 - Among the antiquities of Edinburgh may be mentioned the house of the great Scottish reformer John Knox. It stands on the north side of the foot of the High Street, and, projecting into the street, reduces it nearly one half of its width.
Page 304 - If a bishop pontificated, the deacon and sub-deacon combed his hair, as soon as his sandals had been put on his feet...