Institutions et vie municipale à Aix-en-Provence sous la Révolution: 1789-an VIIIEDISUD, 1809 - 672 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 59
Page 43
... feet in circumference . Melrose has been so often described that it is unnecessary for me to attempt that delightful task ; I shall content my- self with observing , that in elegance of design , in delicacy of form , and in justness of ...
... feet in circumference . Melrose has been so often described that it is unnecessary for me to attempt that delightful task ; I shall content my- self with observing , that in elegance of design , in delicacy of form , and in justness of ...
Page 48
... feet in height , upon the summit of which stands the castle , now rendered , by the improve- ments in modern warfare , fit only for a garrison , though once entitled to the character given of it by Burns , in his Address to Edinburgh ...
... feet in height , upon the summit of which stands the castle , now rendered , by the improve- ments in modern warfare , fit only for a garrison , though once entitled to the character given of it by Burns , in his Address to Edinburgh ...
Page 52
... feet ; and also by the Earthen Mound , which is about 800 feet long , 92 feet high at the south end , and 58 at the north . This mound was commenced in 1783 , owing to a petty tradesman , named George Boyd , who lived in the Old Town ...
... feet ; and also by the Earthen Mound , which is about 800 feet long , 92 feet high at the south end , and 58 at the north . This mound was commenced in 1783 , owing to a petty tradesman , named George Boyd , who lived in the Old Town ...
Page 58
... feet long and twenty - seven broad , and about eighteen high ; and is decorated , or rather disfigured , by the portraits of one hundred and eleven monarchs of Scotland , whose respective reigns would fill up about two thousand years ...
... feet long and twenty - seven broad , and about eighteen high ; and is decorated , or rather disfigured , by the portraits of one hundred and eleven monarchs of Scotland , whose respective reigns would fill up about two thousand years ...
Page 61
... feet square , and opens into Mary's chamber , who was supping with the Countess of Argyle and the ill - starred Italian when the assassins dragged him away , ( although he clung to his royal patroness for protection , ) and butchered ...
... feet square , and opens into Mary's chamber , who was supping with the Countess of Argyle and the ill - starred Italian when the assassins dragged him away , ( although he clung to his royal patroness for protection , ) and butchered ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aberdeen Aberdeenshire adjoining admiration afterwards amongst ancient ANECDOTE appearance arch beautiful bridge building CALEDONIAN CANAL called castle cathedral celebrated character church civil considerable court distance Ditto Duke Earl Edinburgh elegant England English erected feet FLORA MACDONALD Fort Augustus Fort William frequently Gaelic gentleman Gothic architecture handsome Hebrides Highlands hill honour hospitality hundred informed inhabitants Inverness island James Jedburgh King lady lake land language Leith Loch Loch Oich Lord Macdonald magistrates manufactures Marischal College ment miles mountains nature neighbourhood noble Oban object observed parish passed peasant persons Perth Peterhead poor present Prince principal prison Queen resembles residence river road rock royal Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish seat ship shores side society spirit Staffa stands stone streets summit tion town traveller trees Ulva vessels visited vitrified VITRIFIED FORTS walls whilst wind worthy
Popular passages
Page 199 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 354 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 43 - Some of his skill he taught to me; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone. But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance must be done.
Page 64 - Then she asked what kind of exercises she used. I answered, that when I received my dispatch, the Queen was lately come from the Highland hunting: that when her more serious affairs permitted, she was taken up with reading of histories: that sometimes she recreated herself in playing upon the lute and virginals. She asked if she played well. I said, "reasonably for a Queen.
Page 252 - ... which put an end to his life. Nothing, methinks, has more the power of awakening benevolence, than the consideration of genius thus depressed by situation, suffered to pine in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the case of this unfortunate young man, to perish, -it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind, ill calculated to bear the hardships which poverty lays on both. For my own part, I never pass the place (a little hamlet skirted...
Page 272 - ... darkness, were too much dazzled with its light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholars in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation.
Page 65 - I might see her dance, as I was afterwards informed; which being over, she inquired of me whether she or my Queen danced best? I answered, the Queen danced not so high or disposedly as she did.
Page 354 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress...
Page 252 - I never look on his dwelling, — a small thatched house distinguished from the cottages of the other inhabitants only by a sashed window at the end- instead of a lattice, fringed with a honey-suckle plant, which the poor youth had trained around it ; — I never find myself in that spot, but I stop my horse involuntarily ; — and looking on the window, which the honey-suckle has now almost covered, in the dream of the moment, I picture out a figure for the gentle tenant of the mansion ; I wish,...
Page 65 - I knew how, excusing my fault of homeliness as being brought up in the court of France, where such freedom was allowed, declaring myself willing to endure what kind of punishment her majesty should be pleased to inflict upon me for so great an offence. Then she sat down low upon a cushion, and I upon my knees by her, but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee, which at first I refused, but she compelled me to take it. She then called for my Lady Strafford out of the next chamber,...