Black's Guide Through Edinburgh with Pleasure Excursions in the EnvironsA. and C. Black, 1851 - 192 páginas |
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... cloth , and deal planks , that there were such things in the world as stains which ought to remain indelible , on account of the asso- ciations with which they are connected . Our good friend viewed every thing of the kind only as the ...
... cloth , and deal planks , that there were such things in the world as stains which ought to remain indelible , on account of the asso- ciations with which they are connected . Our good friend viewed every thing of the kind only as the ...
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... clothes . At the head of the Netherbow , where it expands YOUNGI into the High Street , stands the HOUSE OF JOHN KNOX , the intrepid Ecclesiastical Reformer . * Over * The building having fallen into a very dilapidated state , the ...
... clothes . At the head of the Netherbow , where it expands YOUNGI into the High Street , stands the HOUSE OF JOHN KNOX , the intrepid Ecclesiastical Reformer . * Over * The building having fallen into a very dilapidated state , the ...
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... clothes of their own choice . In 1836 , an Act was obtained from Parliament , empowering the Governors to extend the benefits of the Institution , and employ their surplus funds in establishing Free Schools in the different parishes of ...
... clothes of their own choice . In 1836 , an Act was obtained from Parliament , empowering the Governors to extend the benefits of the Institution , and employ their surplus funds in establishing Free Schools in the different parishes of ...
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... Clothing the Industrious Poor - and two Ragged Schools . There are also many public Dispensaries , and a Lying - in Hos- pital , where medicines and medical attendance are gratuitously afforded to the poor ; but a further enumeration of ...
... Clothing the Industrious Poor - and two Ragged Schools . There are also many public Dispensaries , and a Lying - in Hos- pital , where medicines and medical attendance are gratuitously afforded to the poor ; but a further enumeration of ...
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... cloth , bottles , soap , and candles . There are several breweries and a distillery , and ship - building is carried on to a considerable extent . Leith is the most important naval station on the east coast of Scotland , and a ...
... cloth , bottles , soap , and candles . There are several breweries and a distillery , and ship - building is carried on to a considerable extent . Leith is the most important naval station on the east coast of Scotland , and a ...
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Página 17 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Página 16 - The Moor and the Loch. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN.
Página 127 - That Castle rises on the steep Of the green vale of Tyne : And far beneath, where slow they creep From pool to eddy, dark and deep, Where alders moist and willows weep, You hear her streams repine. The towers in different ages rose ; Their various architecture shows The builders' various hands ; A mighty mass,-that could oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands.
Página 115 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moon-beam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen, 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Página 115 - Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair, So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.
Página 115 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold But...
Página 107 - Still on the spot Lord Marmion stay'd, For fairer scene he ne'er survey'd. When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a...
Página 25 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Página 29 - ... divided from, each other, in every possible variety which can gratify the eye and the imagination. When a piece of scenery so beautiful, yet so varied, — so exciting by its intricacy, and yet so sublime, — is lighted up by the tints of morning or of I evening, and displays all that variety of shadowy depth, exchanged with partial brilliancy, which gives character even to the tamest of landscapes, the effect approaches near to enchantment.
Página 17 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.