 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 594 Seiten
...of stone (says he), whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." And Boetius, in his description of Scotland, his native country, written in the beginning of the 15th... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 Seiten
...stone (says he) whether with sulphur,. *3S or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." The coal-works at Gilmerton, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, were begun to be wrought in the year... | |
 | John Williams - 1810 - 570 Seiten
...Advocates Library. § ^Enei Sylvii Opera, p. 443. ' ** ever inflammable substance it may be impreg" nated, they burn in place of wood, of which " their country is destitute.' " And Boetius, in his Description of Scotland, " his native country, written in the beginning of "... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - 514 Seiten
...of stone," says he, " whether with sulpher, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." Doles of this, and other kinds should be drawn in a day; and eight years after, at fifty pounds a year,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1836 - 194 Seiten
...of stone," he says, " whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." Doles of this, and other kinds of fuel, are still annually distributed in various parts of this country... | |
 | Peter Chalmers - 1844 - 666 Seiten
...of stone, (says he) whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute.' " And Boetius in his description of Scotland, his native country, written in the beginning of the sixteenth... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1845 - 280 Seiten
...species of stone, he says, whether with sulphur or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute. Boethius, writing in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says, that in Scotfossil coal, that a... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1845 - 286 Seiten
...species of stone, he says, whether with sulphur or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute. Boethius, writing in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says, that in Scotfossil coal, that a... | |
 | Richard Cowling Taylor - 1848 - 950 Seiten
...receive, for alms, pieces of black stone, with which they went away contented. This species of stone they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." But in England it must have been known some centuries earlier; as is shown by a grant of some lands... | |
 | Richard Cowling Taylor - 1848 - 928 Seiten
...receive, for alms, pieces of black stone, with which they went away contented. This species of stone they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute." But in England it must have been known some centuries earlier; as is shown by a grant of some lands... | |
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He relates that he saw in Scotland* ' the poor people, who in rags begged at the churches, receive for alms pieces of stone, with which they went away contented. This species of stone, (says he) whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance... 
