Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1The Society, 1859 |
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... stones for the new erection , and agree with workmen to dress them from the quarry " -and by the following minute , dated on 11th February , 1626 : - " The said day it is concludit that the Provest and Bailies deill with Jon Boyd , and ...
... stones for the new erection , and agree with workmen to dress them from the quarry " -and by the following minute , dated on 11th February , 1626 : - " The said day it is concludit that the Provest and Bailies deill with Jon Boyd , and ...
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... stone ) of the Tolbuithe of Glasgow was laid . " In calling the attention of the members of the Society to this memorable fact , it may be worth while to introduce a note of the late Mr. M'Vean to his edition of M'Ure's History of ...
... stone ) of the Tolbuithe of Glasgow was laid . " In calling the attention of the members of the Society to this memorable fact , it may be worth while to introduce a note of the late Mr. M'Vean to his edition of M'Ure's History of ...
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... stone , with a lofty tower , and melodious hourly chimes . " The painstaking and gar- rulous M'Ure , our earliest local historian , who wrote in 1736 , nine years after Defoe's visit , and who , from his official situation as " Clerk to ...
... stone , with a lofty tower , and melodious hourly chimes . " The painstaking and gar- rulous M'Ure , our earliest local historian , who wrote in 1736 , nine years after Defoe's visit , and who , from his official situation as " Clerk to ...
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... stones of the arches of the piazza , representing what are called the " Tontine faces , " are reported as the carvings of ... stone contortions exhibited ; and with seniors , when any one put on an extraordinary cast of countenance , the ...
... stones of the arches of the piazza , representing what are called the " Tontine faces , " are reported as the carvings of ... stone contortions exhibited ; and with seniors , when any one put on an extraordinary cast of countenance , the ...
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... stone or tablet , representing the Royal arms of Scotland , is built high in the back part of the wall of the tenement , to which the attention of the members of the Society may be directed for further elucidation . At the period of ...
... stone or tablet , representing the Royal arms of Scotland , is built high in the back part of the wall of the tenement , to which the attention of the members of the Society may be directed for further elucidation . At the period 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.
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.