Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route: With a Trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides. Containing Hints for Improvements in Agriculture and Commerce. With Characters and Anecdotes. Embellished with Views of Striking Objects, and a Map, Including the Caledonian Canal, Band 1J. Johnson, 1807 |
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... excellent , and right , but what , at the mo- ment , seems advantageous or prudent . But the true and accomplished nobleman considers no- thing as foreign to himself that is interesting to human nature , admires virtue for her own sake ...
... excellent , and right , but what , at the mo- ment , seems advantageous or prudent . But the true and accomplished nobleman considers no- thing as foreign to himself that is interesting to human nature , admires virtue for her own sake ...
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... excellent here , to appear at the wells as spouting from the mouths of angels , is more than I can comprehend . To paint angels with wings is not unnatural ; because they are the messengers of heaven , and are conceived as flying from ...
... excellent here , to appear at the wells as spouting from the mouths of angels , is more than I can comprehend . To paint angels with wings is not unnatural ; because they are the messengers of heaven , and are conceived as flying from ...
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... excellent line of road , I arrived at Culross , which is a royal burgh , beauti- fully situated on the banks of the Forth , and com- manding an extensive prospect , though irregularly built . Lord Dundonald has a noble mansion here ...
... excellent line of road , I arrived at Culross , which is a royal burgh , beauti- fully situated on the banks of the Forth , and com- manding an extensive prospect , though irregularly built . Lord Dundonald has a noble mansion here ...
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... excellent sermon , drew from his hearers from five to six pounds sterling ; and would have made more of it , had not the other players arrived , and informed them what he was . In Culross muir , or common , there is a large stone with ...
... excellent sermon , drew from his hearers from five to six pounds sterling ; and would have made more of it , had not the other players arrived , and informed them what he was . In Culross muir , or common , there is a large stone with ...
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... excellent place ; and his obtaining it depended entirely on his being there before the post . He waited for hours , but , the weather being stormy , no boat would venture out . At length one was about to sail out . Having occasion to 56 ...
... excellent place ; and his obtaining it depended entirely on his being there before the post . He waited for hours , but , the weather being stormy , no boat would venture out . At length one was about to sail out . Having occasion to 56 ...
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Seite 94 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
Seite 53 - Gallant knight, I thank you — you promise it me, then?' ' Certainly, Sir, most willingly,' answered the knight. He then gave his promise upon his knighthood. The King said, ' Thanks be to God! for I shall now die in peace, since I know that the most valiant knight of my kingdom will perform that for me which I am unable to do for myself.
Seite 53 - You will not be sparing of expense — and provide yourself with such company and such things as may be suitable to your rank — and wherever you pass, you will let it be known, that you bear the heart of King Robert of Scotland, which you are carrying beyond seas by his command, since his body cannot go thither.
Seite 161 - How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the seaman's toil ! Not that another's danger soothes the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure...
Seite 106 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Seite 205 - The burgess oath in some of the royal burghs of Scotland contains the following clause: " I profess and allow, with my heart, the true religion presently professed within this realm, and authorized by the laws thereof. I will abide and defend the same to my life's end, renouncing the Romish religion called Papistry.
Seite 61 - I saw a number of savage -looking men and women gathering around me, demanding who and what I was ? In order to get the pamphlet, my hostess had set the bell through the town, offering a shilling for the book ; and as it represents them in a ludicrous point of view, and they think nobody reads it but with a view to laugh at them, they had determined to give me a drubbing. The truth is, I was obliged to stop, and it required all my address, as well as the aid of my purse, to get off with a whole head,...
Seite 19 - ... of luxury, and debauch them from doing good: whereas the offices of these lesser governments extending only over a moderate number of people, will be duly executed, and many men have occasions put into their hands of doing good to their fellow citizens. So many different seats of government will highly tend to the improvement of all arts and sciences; and afford great variety of entertainment to all foreigners and others of a curious and inquisitive genius, as the ancient cities of Greece did.
Seite 53 - ... me; and I will most willingly do all that you command me with the utmost loyalty in my power; never doubt it, however I may feel myself unworthy of such a high distinction.
Seite 52 - David, and obey him and crown him king when he was of a proper age, and to marry him with a lady suitable to his station. " He after that called to him the gallant lord James Douglas...