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, المجلد 1J. Johnson, 1807 |
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... manner of life , habits , notions , and general condition of the Britons remain still among the desiderata literaria : though it is not every day that a genius is to be found fitted for the task ; for the accomplishment of which the ...
... manner of life , habits , notions , and general condition of the Britons remain still among the desiderata literaria : though it is not every day that a genius is to be found fitted for the task ; for the accomplishment of which the ...
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... manners of the Abyssinians , however beastly they appear in some points of view , differ but little from some of the African tribes near Tambouchtou , that he has visited . Mr. Park , who is only about twenty - eight or thirty years of ...
... manners of the Abyssinians , however beastly they appear in some points of view , differ but little from some of the African tribes near Tambouchtou , that he has visited . Mr. Park , who is only about twenty - eight or thirty years of ...
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... manner of fraud , circumvention , and roguery . A little after he had returned to the manse , a servant came and told him that Rob Roy was at the door , and wanted to speak to him . This was a noted drover , or dealer in cattle . Robert ...
... manner of fraud , circumvention , and roguery . A little after he had returned to the manse , a servant came and told him that Rob Roy was at the door , and wanted to speak to him . This was a noted drover , or dealer in cattle . Robert ...
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... manner , all the way to the river Eske , in Dumfriesshire , which , falling into the Solway Firth , forms part of the boundary between Scotland and England . The grand consular road was carried from Stirling through Ardoch с Strathgeth ...
... manner , all the way to the river Eske , in Dumfriesshire , which , falling into the Solway Firth , forms part of the boundary between Scotland and England . The grand consular road was carried from Stirling through Ardoch с Strathgeth ...
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... manner , that though it is but four miles between these two places by land , it is twenty - four by water . About Alloa House , belonging to Erskine of Mar , the extensive woods and pleasure grounds planted and 28 TRAVELS IN SCOTLAND .
... manner , that though it is but four miles between these two places by land , it is twenty - four by water . About Alloa House , belonging to Erskine of Mar , the extensive woods and pleasure grounds planted and 28 TRAVELS IN SCOTLAND .
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TRAVELS IN SCOTLAND BY AN UNUS, المجلد 2 <span dir=ltr>James Of Walthamstow Hall</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2016 |
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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,...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...