Sylvan's Pictorial handbook to the Clyde and its watering-places1847 - 105 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Ardrossan Argyle Arran ascend banks Bothwell Castle bridge Brodick Brodick Castle Broomielaw Bute called Catechism Christian Church of Scotland cloth Clyde coast contains Corra Linn cottages Covenanters cross Cumbray Demy Dumbarton Dumbarton Rock Dunoon edge Edinburgh elegant eminence entrance excursion fcap feet Foolscap 8vo Free Church Frith GILKS gilt Glasgow Glen Rosa Glen Sannox Goatfell Gourock Greenock grounds heading and letter hills Holy Loch ILLUSTRATIONS Innerkip island James Kilmun Lakes Lamlash Lanark land Loch Lomond Loch Long Loch Striven M'Crie mansion miles Milport mountains neat ORIGINAL SKETCHES Ornamental heading Paisley passing picturesque pier plantation port railway ramble Renfrew rises river road Robert rock Rothesay Castle Royal ruins Saltcoats scene scenery Scottish scriptural seat Second Edition seen sewed shore side situated steam-boat steamer stream SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL HAND-BOOK Tailpiece tourist tower town vessels village volume walk watering-places wild woods
Popular passages
Page 15 - Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists, and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, low'rs. Still, thro...
Page 91 - Too justly I may fear! Still caring, despairing, Must be my bitter doom; My woes here shall close ne'er But with the closing tomb!
Page 5 - VILLAGE SERMONS; Or, 101 Plain and Short Discourses on the Principal Doctrines of the Gospel INTENDED FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES, SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, OR COMPANIES ASSEMBLED FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN COUNTRY VILLAGES. BY GEORGE BURDER.
Page 10 - Edition, demy 8vo, cloth, 6s. " These are orations, these are arguments, worthy of a very high and permanent place in our theological literature. They display a vigour and originality of thought which it is truly refreshing to meet with in printed sermons, and are, at the same time, boldly explicit in the enunciation of the Gospel system.
Page 8 - Century of Scottish Church History. In an Historical Sketch of the Church of Scotland from the Secession to the Disruption. With an Account of the Free Church. By the Rev. James Dodds of the Free Church, Belhaven.
Page 10 - OAUSSK1V—Geneva and Rome. An Address to the Students of the Theological School, Geneva, at the opening of the Session 1843. By Professor L. Gaussen, 8vo, 4d. " A very graphic description of the present aspect of Popery and Protestantism."—Scottish Congregational Magazine.
Page 16 - SAVING FAITH, As laid down in the Word of God, and maintained in the Confessions of the Reformed Churches. Being a series of works by the following authors :— John Anderson, DD, STP, United States; Rev. Ebenezer Erskine of Stirling; Rev. William Cudworth of Norwich. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, 4s.
Page 15 - Or, Utterance of the Heart, in the Course of a Real Correspondence. By the late Rev. John Newton, Vicar of Olney. With an Introductory Essay, by David Russell, DD, Dundee. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, with Portrait, 3s.
Page 14 - Mr. Miller, is as admirable for the clearness of its descriptions, and the sweetness of Its composition, as for the purity and gracefulness wnich pervade it.
Page 7 - The Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome truly Represented. By Edward Stillingfleet, DD, Bishop of Worcester; in answer to a Book entitled, "A Papist Misrepresented and Represented." A New Edition, with Preface and Notes [forming more than one-half of the volume.] By William Cunningham, DD, Principal, and Professor of Divinity and Church History, New College, Edinburgh. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, 5s.