The North British review1866 |
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... estate , as tradition tells , in the following way - Bailie Gordon , a wealthy Edinburgh merchant , made a bargain with the Laird of Ellon , when in his cups , to sell his estate at a price greatly under its value . country folk , who ...
... estate , as tradition tells , in the following way - Bailie Gordon , a wealthy Edinburgh merchant , made a bargain with the Laird of Ellon , when in his cups , to sell his estate at a price greatly under its value . country folk , who ...
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... estate , forthwith set about acquiring another , and purchased Muchalls , its Lord having got into difficulties . The lady of the Castle , loath , we doubt not , to leave her ' bonnie house , ' persuaded Mr. Moir to take instead , the ...
... estate , forthwith set about acquiring another , and purchased Muchalls , its Lord having got into difficulties . The lady of the Castle , loath , we doubt not , to leave her ' bonnie house , ' persuaded Mr. Moir to take instead , the ...
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... estate on him ; Lord Forbes's daughter with a tocher of 40,000 merks was also scorned . And all for the same and the best reason . He was in love with his cousin , Margaret Mackenzie of Ardross . It was the old story , -liebend und ...
... estate on him ; Lord Forbes's daughter with a tocher of 40,000 merks was also scorned . And all for the same and the best reason . He was in love with his cousin , Margaret Mackenzie of Ardross . It was the old story , -liebend und ...
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... Estates by favouring the pretensions of the peasants . By this policy they contrived to bring back things to a state of stable equilibrium ; and to careless observers , the Empire , when it passed into the hands of Francis , in 1792 ...
... Estates by favouring the pretensions of the peasants . By this policy they contrived to bring back things to a state of stable equilibrium ; and to careless observers , the Empire , when it passed into the hands of Francis , in 1792 ...
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... estates , such as have fallen to the Crown on the extinction of the families to whom they were granted , should , as the law directs , be given only as the reward of public services , and not sold , as at present , to the highest bidder ...
... estates , such as have fallen to the Crown on the extinction of the families to whom they were granted , should , as the law directs , be given only as the reward of public services , and not sold , as at present , to the highest bidder ...
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الصفحة 79 - ... so far as it went; but it did not go far enough. The...
الصفحة 395 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
الصفحة 147 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
الصفحة 116 - Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
الصفحة 22 - Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 97 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
الصفحة 99 - Well gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on, Yet for he was a Scholar, once admired For wondrous knowledge in our German schools, We'll give his mangled limbs due burial: And all the Students, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral.
الصفحة 129 - When in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine...
الصفحة 99 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
الصفحة 225 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.