The History of the Province of Moray: Comprising the Counties of Elgin and Nairn, the Greater Part of the County of Inverness and a Portion of the County of Banff,--all Called the Province of Moray Before There was a Division Into Counties, المجلد 2Hamilton, Adams & Company, 1882 |
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الصفحة 171 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
الصفحة 145 - ... and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day. God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.
الصفحة 202 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
الصفحة 266 - Shaw, speaking of the present castle, "stands between two courts of buildings. Tradition beareth that the Thane was directed in a dream to build the tower round a hawthorn tree on the bank of the brook. Be this as it will, there is in the lowest vault of the tower, the trunk of a hawthorn tree, firm and sound, growing out of the rock and reaching to the top of the vault. Strangers are brought to stand round it, each one to take a chip of it, and then to drink to the hawthorn tree, ie, 'Prosperity...
الصفحة 268 - ... the work of several ages, a weather-beaten tower, encircled by comparatively newer and less elevated dwellings, the whole being enclosed within a moat, and approachable only by a drawbridge, which rattles on its chains just as in the years long gone by.
الصفحة 322 - The breastwork was three storeys high, all of hewn stone, and lined with brick inside. The sally-port lay towards the town. The principal gateway was to the north, where was a strong drawbridge of oak and a stately structure over it, with this motto, TOGAM TUENTUR ARMA — Arms preserve the Gown.
الصفحة 170 - Alma in 1854, and a few days afterwards, when the British were leaving the field, he volunteered to remain behind with 700 desperately wounded Russians. Isolated from his countrymen, endangered by the vicinity of large bodies of Cossacks ill supplied with food, and •exposed to the risk of pestilence, he succeeded in restoring to health about 400 of the enemy, and embarking them for Odessa. He then died from the effects of excessive hardships and privation. This public monument is erected as a tribute...
الصفحة 245 - Be this as it may, the antiquity of the name appeareth from this that no history record or tradition (that I know of) doth so much as hint that any other family or name possessed the lands of Brodie before them, or that they came as strangers from another country.
الصفحة 211 - happened on the ides of October, in the year of our redemption 1097, and in the 37th year of his reign ; and in the same year Albion was terrified by many most alarming prodigies. Many villages, castles, towns, and extensive woods, both in England and in Scotland, were overwhelmed by an exundation of the German Ocean, by the weight of which tempest, the...
الصفحة 415 - I was born in the year 1710, a few miles from Keith, a little village in Banffshire, in the north of Scotland; and can with pleasure say, that my parents, though poor, were religious and honest; lived in good repute with all who knew them, and died with good characters.