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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... Side Rothes • • Page . 1 23 55 • 167 186 198 213 241 271 272 278 280 283 287 298 302 309 311 • ( Vol . II . ) • 324 328 • 334 335 • 349 • 352 $ 56 364 368 371 372 • 374 386 • 453 From Forres to Inverness . Fort George . Inverness From ...
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... , take long and com- prehensive views . They look back to the past , around them on every side , and forward to what is to come after them . - Selfish and grovelling calculators , whether in business or politics , consider.
... , take long and com- prehensive views . They look back to the past , around them on every side , and forward to what is to come after them . - Selfish and grovelling calculators , whether in business or politics , consider.
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... side , as we sce in large barges on the Thames at this day . Now as men in a boat with an oar at each end , acting in different directions , produce the same effect , and assist one another in turning her , might not a helm , or rudder ...
... side , as we sce in large barges on the Thames at this day . Now as men in a boat with an oar at each end , acting in different directions , produce the same effect , and assist one another in turning her , might not a helm , or rudder ...
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... sides of the Island by means of twenty locks on the east side of the country , and nineteen on the west ; for the tide does not ebb so low by nine feet in the Clyde as in the Forth ; where it rises and falls 160 feet . The canal being ...
... sides of the Island by means of twenty locks on the east side of the country , and nineteen on the west ; for the tide does not ebb so low by nine feet in the Clyde as in the Forth ; where it rises and falls 160 feet . The canal being ...
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... side of North America , he saw trees 60 feet in circumference , and the trunks below the branches from 50 to 60 feet high . From Torwood I directed my course to Bannock- burn , where the famous victory was gained in the year 1314 , by ...
... side of North America , he saw trees 60 feet in circumference , and the trunks below the branches from 50 to 60 feet high . From Torwood I directed my course to Bannock- burn , where the famous victory was gained in the year 1314 , by ...
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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...