History of Glasgow: And of Paisley, Greenock, and Port-Glasgow; Comprehending the Ecclesiastical and Civil History of These Places, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time: and Including an Account of Their Population, Commerce, Manufactures, Arts, and Agriculture, Volume 1W. Paton, 1795 |
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Page 44 - Rome his jurisdiction. If the king will be to me as his predecessors were to mine, I will obey and acknowledge him for my king ; but if he do otherwise, and play the runagate from God, as he and you all do, I will not acknowledge him more than this old hat.
Page 2 - A new creation rescued from his reign. Thus, while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil, Industrious habits in each bosom reign, And industry begets a love of gain. Hence all the good from opulence that springs, With all those ills superfluous treasure brings, Are here display'd.
Page 49 - Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 92 - On the most religious people of our own town huge burdens did fall. On some 10, on some 20, on others 30 soldiers and more did quarter ; who, beside meat and drink, wine and good cheer, and whatever they called for, did exact cruelly their daily pay and much more. In ten days they cost a few honest but mean people 40,000 pounds, besides plundering of these whom necessity forced to Hee from their houses.
Page 136 - Bailie may most justly be reckoned among the great men of this time, and was an honour to his country, for his profound and universal learning, his exact and solid judgment, that vast variety of languages he understood, to the number of twelve or thirteen, and his writing a Latin style which might become the Augustan age : but I need not enlarge on his character, his works do praise him in the gates.
Page 49 - Immediately the doors of the church flew open, and the bishop entered. Falling upon his knees, with eyes elevated and arms expanded, he uttered these words : — ' This place is holy, the ground is holy ; in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I pronounce it holy.
Page 12 - When a contagious disease enters among cattle, the fire is extinguished in some villages round ; then they force fire with a wheel, or by rubbing a piece of dry wood upon another, and therewith burn juniper in the stalls of the cattle, that the smoke may purify the air about them ; they likewise boil juniper in water, which they sprinkle upon the cattle : this done, the fires in the houses are rekindled from the forced fire.
Page 45 - It is a question among the doctors of the church: many hold the affirmative, not improbably ; but as that point is not yet determined, so if it shall be concluded, I will give my life in defence of it; and so to call it unlawful I will not, though I should save my life by saying it.
Page 45 - I came by command of my superior into this kingdom, and if I were even now forth of it I would return ; neither do I repent anything, but that I have not been so busy as I should, in that which you call perverting of subjects. I am accused for declining the king's authority, and will do it still in matters of religion, for with such matters he hath nothing to do ; and this which I say, the best of your ministers do maintain...
Page 43 - I know not what authority he hath but what he received from his predecessors, who acknowledged the pope of Rome his jurisdiction. If the king will be to me as his predecessors were to mine, I will obey and acknowledge him for my king ; but if he...