Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1The Society, 1859 |
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... given to the Ander- sonian University . This turned the conversation on these first experiments in the small way , and he entered into all the details , of making joints , & c . He was much pleased with the simple way in which we made ...
... given to the Ander- sonian University . This turned the conversation on these first experiments in the small way , and he entered into all the details , of making joints , & c . He was much pleased with the simple way in which we made ...
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... given above , there can be no longer any doubt as to the date of its foundation , viz . , in 1626 , the second year of the reign of Charles I. , James Inglis being then Provost ; Patrick Bell , James Stewart , and William Neilson ...
... given above , there can be no longer any doubt as to the date of its foundation , viz . , in 1626 , the second year of the reign of Charles I. , James Inglis being then Provost ; Patrick Bell , James Stewart , and William Neilson ...
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... given in the foregoing extracts , together with the steeple yet to be seen , a pretty correct idea may be formed of the external architectural appearance or elevation of the whole of the prison buildings . These last , in point of ...
... given in the foregoing extracts , together with the steeple yet to be seen , a pretty correct idea may be formed of the external architectural appearance or elevation of the whole of the prison buildings . These last , in point of ...
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... given , to those who purchased the materials . No document hitherto produced enables us to discover the whole cost of the erection ; but , from the specimens already cited of the value of labour , the expense , though considerable ...
... given , to those who purchased the materials . No document hitherto produced enables us to discover the whole cost of the erection ; but , from the specimens already cited of the value of labour , the expense , though considerable ...
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... extreme . The delinquent was stripped to the bare back , attached to a cart tail , and attended by the town officers- the hangman presiding in his uniform . So many lashes were given at the Cross ; and next , this deplorable procession 21.
... extreme . The delinquent was stripped to the bare back , attached to a cart tail , and attended by the town officers- the hangman presiding in his uniform . So many lashes were given at the Cross ; and next , this deplorable procession 21.
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Page 454 - 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 221 - 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 450 - 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 10 - 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 10 - 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 453 - 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 453 - 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 10 - 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 226 - 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 13 - ... 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.