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... says , " Upon so potent a help as these two last - mentioned inventions , a Water - works is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived , that a child's force bringeth up an hundred feet high an incredible ...
... says , " Upon so potent a help as these two last - mentioned inventions , a Water - works is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived , that a child's force bringeth up an hundred feet high an incredible ...
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... ( says he ) differ very much in their accounts of the time when the Jail was built . Brown , Denholm , Wade , and our author ( M'Ure ) , give 1636 ; our late his- torians give 1603 as the date . This last date is evidently errone- ous ...
... ( says he ) differ very much in their accounts of the time when the Jail was built . Brown , Denholm , Wade , and our author ( M'Ure ) , give 1636 ; our late his- torians give 1603 as the date . This last date is evidently errone- ous ...
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... says : - " The Tolbooth or Prison is a very handsome lofty building of five stories , situated im- mediately to the east of the Town's House and Exchange . At each corner towards the top it is flanked with square turrets , ornamented ...
... says : - " The Tolbooth or Prison is a very handsome lofty building of five stories , situated im- mediately to the east of the Town's House and Exchange . At each corner towards the top it is flanked with square turrets , ornamented ...
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... Andrew Foulis of Glasgow . The original of this interesting print is now very scarce , of which Robert Foulis says in his Catalogue of Pictures ( 1776 ) - " The essays in land- scapes that were done by Robert Paul , a little 16.
... Andrew Foulis of Glasgow . The original of this interesting print is now very scarce , of which Robert Foulis says in his Catalogue of Pictures ( 1776 ) - " The essays in land- scapes that were done by Robert Paul , a little 16.
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... says , " It is a handsome and large room ; in length it measures 52 feet , in breadth 27. Here are full length portraits of all our monarchs since James I. of England , and an excellent one by Ramsay ( likely the son of the poet ) of ...
... says , " It is a handsome and large room ; in length it measures 52 feet , in breadth 27. Here are full length portraits of all our monarchs since James I. of England , and an excellent one by Ramsay ( likely the son of the poet ) of ...
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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.
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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
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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.
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