Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1The Society, 1859 |
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... Church . On all these occasions the stir among the people was very great , each one anxious to realise what a Lord was in appearance , with life or death in his hand , and who had come upon the errand of dispensing justice . During the ...
... Church . On all these occasions the stir among the people was very great , each one anxious to realise what a Lord was in appearance , with life or death in his hand , and who had come upon the errand of dispensing justice . During the ...
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... churches on Sunday the precentor regularly read aloud his line to the congregation and minister- " Remember in prayer a man under sentence of death . " The scaffold was erected in the course of the night before the day of execution ...
... churches on Sunday the precentor regularly read aloud his line to the congregation and minister- " Remember in prayer a man under sentence of death . " The scaffold was erected in the course of the night before the day of execution ...
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... Church revenues were derived ; whom , as I rather suppose Mr. Crawford must mean to indicate or include under the term or character of serfs , because they possessed or cultivated the lands mentioned in the " Inquisito David Principis ...
... Church revenues were derived ; whom , as I rather suppose Mr. Crawford must mean to indicate or include under the term or character of serfs , because they possessed or cultivated the lands mentioned in the " Inquisito David Principis ...
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... church , a magistrate in every town , a soldier in every house . " Returning to Scandinavian authorities , Sigur Snogoje , son of Rag- nar , led an army into England to revenge his father's defeat and death , and routed entirely the ...
... church , a magistrate in every town , a soldier in every house . " Returning to Scandinavian authorities , Sigur Snogoje , son of Rag- nar , led an army into England to revenge his father's defeat and death , and routed entirely the ...
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... churches , altars , and hospitals , had been erected to his honour in various parts of the country . In the Registrum ... Church of St. Nicholas occur as far back as the year 1220. The Aberdeen Burgh Records , published by the Spalding ...
... churches , altars , and hospitals , had been erected to his honour in various parts of the country . In the Registrum ... Church of St. Nicholas occur as far back as the year 1220. The Aberdeen Burgh Records , published by the Spalding ...
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Page 450 - 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 217 - 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 446 - And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.
Page 6 - 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 6 - 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 was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 449 - 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
Page 449 - Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 6 - Street, and had passed the old washing-house. 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...
Page 222 - 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 ; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome.
Page 9 - ... the next room ; and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that, though it work day and night, from one end of the year to the other, it will not require forty shillings reparation to the whole engine, nor hinder one day's work.