Sylvan's Pictorial handbook to the Clyde and its watering-places

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1847 - 105 pages

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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.
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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.
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