Glasghu Facies: A View of the City of Glasgow; Or, An Account of Its Origin, Rise, and Progress, with a More Particular Description Thereof Than Has Been Hitherto Known ...J. Tweed, 1873 - 1279 pages |
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Glasghu Facies: A View of the City of Glasgow, Or an Account of Its Origin ... John M'Ure No preview available - 2018 |
Glasghu Facies: A View of the City of Glasgow, Or an Account of Its Origin ... John M'ure No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 478 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 392 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells.' How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 426 - His hair was curled in order, At the rising of the sun, In comely rows and buckles smart That about his ears did run ; And, before, there was a toupee That some inches up did grow, And behind there was a long queue, That did o'er his shoulders flow. Oh ! we ne'er shall see the like of Captain Paton no mo'e ! And whenever we foregathered He took off his wee
Page 214 - October 24, 1684 ; for their adherence to the word of God, and Scotland's covenanted work of reformation.
Page 109 - But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not, for his sake that shewed it and for conscience...
Page 605 - I managed," says this person, quoting his memory after an interval of seventy years, "to get so near him, as he passed homewards to his lodgings, that I could have touched him with my hand; and the impression which he made upon my mind shall never fade as long as I live. He had a princely aspect, and its interest was much heightened by the dejection which appeared in his pale fair countenance and downcast eye. He evidently wanted confidence in his cause, and seemed to have a melancholy foreboding...
Page 427 - Corkindale could do, It was plain, from twenty symptoms, That death was in his view ; So the captain made his...
Page 12 - ... large and lofty, most industriously and artificially carved from the very foundation to the superstructure, to the great admiration of strangers and travellers. But this statehouse, or tolbooth, is their western prodigy, infinitely excelling the model and usual built of...
Page 392 - HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night...
Page 214 - Cause they adheared in their station. These nine, with others in this yard Whose heads and bodies were not spar'd Their testimonies, foes, to bury Caus'd beat the drums then in great fury. They'll know at resurrection day To murder saints was no sweet play.