Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1The Society, 1859 |
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... present . " I think this was in the year 1813 or '14 . My brother and I went next morning and saw the house ; a large door had been made in the end of it , to make it into a cart- house , and a carrier was loading his cart in it at the ...
... present . " I think this was in the year 1813 or '14 . My brother and I went next morning and saw the house ; a large door had been made in the end of it , to make it into a cart- house , and a carrier was loading his cart in it at the ...
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... present Paper to give a few brief notices of one of those buildings which for nearly two centuries prominently figured in the annals of Glasgow - namely , The Old Jail or Tolbooth at the Cross , removed in 1814 , —a building which , for ...
... present Paper to give a few brief notices of one of those buildings which for nearly two centuries prominently figured in the annals of Glasgow - namely , The Old Jail or Tolbooth at the Cross , removed in 1814 , —a building which , for ...
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... present police establishments ; but there should be taken along with our comparison , the inferiority of a considerable portion of the structures at that early time in Glasgow , represented by historians , " as covered with turf ...
... present police establishments ; but there should be taken along with our comparison , the inferiority of a considerable portion of the structures at that early time in Glasgow , represented by historians , " as covered with turf ...
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... present Infirmary . At what period the gallows was first erected on the two last - mentioned sites is not ascertained , but executions are stated as far back as 173 years , which must have occurred at one or other of those spots . This ...
... present Infirmary . At what period the gallows was first erected on the two last - mentioned sites is not ascertained , but executions are stated as far back as 173 years , which must have occurred at one or other of those spots . This ...
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... and the Cross resumed its ordinary appearance . The last execution at which I was present at the Cross was that of a highway robber , named Ferguson . He was a little well - built man , and I believe never gave any signs of penitence , 26.
... and the Cross resumed its ordinary appearance . The last execution at which I was present at the Cross was that of a highway robber , named Ferguson . He was a little well - built man , and I believe never gave any signs of penitence , 26.
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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.