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 ...Thomson Bonar and John Brown [and 7 others], 1805 - 547 pages |
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... ground , called Lur- gie craigs . It consists of regular columns of whin - stone or basaltic rock , similar to those at Arthur's seat hanging over the foot - path which leads from Edinburgh to Dud- dingston ; but the columns at Lurgie ...
... ground , called Lur- gie craigs . It consists of regular columns of whin - stone or basaltic rock , similar to those at Arthur's seat hanging over the foot - path which leads from Edinburgh to Dud- dingston ; but the columns at Lurgie ...
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... ground consists of two vaults , which have been converted into cellars for holding wine and other liquors . The bu- rial ground contiguous to these vaults is all paved with fine stones four feet beneath the surface ; which is a clear ...
... ground consists of two vaults , which have been converted into cellars for holding wine and other liquors . The bu- rial ground contiguous to these vaults is all paved with fine stones four feet beneath the surface ; which is a clear ...
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... ground of a heap of stones which had been collected upon the top of the Crimson or Cranston hill , on the north side of the village of Gavinstown , several earthen urns , of different sizes , were dug up . The urns contained human bones ...
... ground of a heap of stones which had been collected upon the top of the Crimson or Cranston hill , on the north side of the village of Gavinstown , several earthen urns , of different sizes , were dug up . The urns contained human bones ...
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... ground having been drained towards the south , and the streets of the village being kept in good order . In former times the case was different ; agues were very pre- valent ; and even putrid fevers often cut off considerable numbers of ...
... ground having been drained towards the south , and the streets of the village being kept in good order . In former times the case was different ; agues were very pre- valent ; and even putrid fevers often cut off considerable numbers of ...
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... ground . In this respect it is not altogether useless . The soil upon the hills is generally dry and sharp ; but some of the high moors and the declivities near rivers are wet and marshy . Some of the higher grounds are of a porous ...
... ground . In this respect it is not altogether useless . The soil upon the hills is generally dry and sharp ; but some of the high moors and the declivities near rivers are wet and marshy . Some of the higher grounds are of a porous ...
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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 Kelso King Kirkcudbright land Langholm late lime loch Lord lord of Galloway manufactures 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 513 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
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 514 - 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. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "...
Page 513 - 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 514 - 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 524 - 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 118 - 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.
Page 513 - 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 519 - My pupil, Robert Burns, was then between six and seven years of age, his preceptor about eighteen. Robert and his younger brother Gilbert had been grounded a little in English, before they were put under my care. They both made a rapid progress in reading, and a tolerable progress in writing. In reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling without book, parsing sentences...
Page 343 - Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other.