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... ( says he ) differ very much in their accounts of the time when the Jail was built . Brown , Denholm , Wade , and our author ( M'Ure ) , give 1636 ; our late his- torians give 1603 as the date . This last date is evidently errone- ous ...
... ( says he ) differ very much in their accounts of the time when the Jail was built . Brown , Denholm , Wade , and our author ( M'Ure ) , give 1636 ; our late his- torians give 1603 as the date . This last date is evidently errone- ous ...
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... ( says this celebrated author ) from the North Gate ( or High Street ) to this place ( the market place ) , the Tolbooth and Guildhall make the north - west angle or right - hand corner of the street , which was rebuilt in a very ...
... ( says this celebrated author ) from the North Gate ( or High Street ) to this place ( the market place ) , the Tolbooth and Guildhall make the north - west angle or right - hand corner of the street , which was rebuilt in a very ...
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... says : - " The Tolbooth or Prison is a very handsome lofty building of five stories , situated im- mediately to the east of the Town's House and Exchange . At each corner towards the top it is flanked with square turrets , ornamented ...
... says : - " The Tolbooth or Prison is a very handsome lofty building of five stories , situated im- mediately to the east of the Town's House and Exchange . At each corner towards the top it is flanked with square turrets , ornamented ...
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... Andrew Foulis of Glasgow . The original of this interesting print is now very scarce , of which Robert Foulis says in his Catalogue of Pictures ( 1776 ) - " The essays in land- scapes that were done by Robert Paul , a little 16.
... Andrew Foulis of Glasgow . The original of this interesting print is now very scarce , of which Robert Foulis says in his Catalogue of Pictures ( 1776 ) - " The essays in land- scapes that were done by Robert Paul , a little 16.
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... says , " It is a handsome and large room ; in length it measures 52 feet , in breadth 27. Here are full length portraits of all our monarchs since James I. of England , and an excellent one by Ramsay ( likely the son of the poet ) of ...
... says , " It is a handsome and large room ; in length it measures 52 feet , in breadth 27. Here are full length portraits of all our monarchs since James I. of England , and an excellent one by Ramsay ( likely the son of the poet ) of ...
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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!
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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