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... existed while the inhabitants of Glasgow were the serfs of the Roman Catholic Archbishop , who ruled supreme , and as the Lord of the Barony , and latterly of the Regality , appointed the Magistrates ; and as I found that some recent ...
... existed while the inhabitants of Glasgow were the serfs of the Roman Catholic Archbishop , who ruled supreme , and as the Lord of the Barony , and latterly of the Regality , appointed the Magistrates ; and as I found that some recent ...
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... existed while the inhabitants of Glasgow were the serfs of the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop , " I can as ill reconcile myself . The statement is equally improper and incorrect . If it be the occupants or rentallers of the neighbouring ...
... existed while the inhabitants of Glasgow were the serfs of the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop , " I can as ill reconcile myself . The statement is equally improper and incorrect . If it be the occupants or rentallers of the neighbouring ...
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... existed during the supposed era of serfdom , it would certainly have been desirable that , instead of the most meagre simple allusions to the dates of the early charters of the Corporations of Hammermen and others , of 11th October ...
... existed during the supposed era of serfdom , it would certainly have been desirable that , instead of the most meagre simple allusions to the dates of the early charters of the Corporations of Hammermen and others , of 11th October ...
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... in 1210 , relating to person- ages who lived between 451 and 500 , or the Sage von Ecken Aus- fahrt , or König Laurin , both known to have existed in writing in M the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , he will mark the 87.
... in 1210 , relating to person- ages who lived between 451 and 500 , or the Sage von Ecken Aus- fahrt , or König Laurin , both known to have existed in writing in M the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , he will mark the 87.
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... existed in England at and prior to the Norman Conquest , and which were but slightly modified in the following century by the effects of that revolution . If we now turn to the Danish , Swedish , and Norwegian Sagas , written prior to ...
... existed in England at and prior to the Norman Conquest , and which were but slightly modified in the following century by the effects of that revolution . If we now turn to the Danish , Swedish , and Norwegian Sagas , written prior to ...
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Page 215 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 438 - The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, The teir blinded his ee. "O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Page 4 - I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 4 - I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an...
Page 446 - A' for the sake of their true loves ; For them they'll see na mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi...
Page 459 - But wha will bake my bridal bread, Or brew my bridal ale ? And wha will welcome my brisk bride, That I bring o'er the dale...
Page 440 - O lang, lang may their ladies sit, Wi thair fans into their hand, Or eir they se Sir Patrick Spence Cum sailing to the land. O lang, lang may the ladies stand, Wi thair gold kems in their hair, Waiting for thair ain deir lords, For they'll se thame na mair.
Page 220 - He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on king's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home...
Page 439 - They hadna been a week, a week In Noroway but twae, When that the lords o...
Page 439 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a