The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ...T. Bonar and J. Brown, 1806 - Architecture |
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... inhabitants were Argyle's vassals . By mistake they left a single house in the parish of Muckart unconsumed by fire , from the supposition that it stood on the property of another baron . The castle was anciently supplied with water ...
... inhabitants were Argyle's vassals . By mistake they left a single house in the parish of Muckart unconsumed by fire , from the supposition that it stood on the property of another baron . The castle was anciently supplied with water ...
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... inhabitants ; and the artificers who live in it are chiefly employed by the surrounding country . It has two annual fairs , which are noway distinguished . It is to be observed , that there is only one sheriff , or , as he is called in ...
... inhabitants ; and the artificers who live in it are chiefly employed by the surrounding country . It has two annual fairs , which are noway distinguished . It is to be observed , that there is only one sheriff , or , as he is called in ...
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... inhabitants . Some intervening morasses and exten- sive moors likewise variegate and blot the surface . Evea the margin of Lochleven is ornamented in this way by a common moor of more than 300 acres , in the neigh- bourhood of the town ...
... inhabitants . Some intervening morasses and exten- sive moors likewise variegate and blot the surface . Evea the margin of Lochleven is ornamented in this way by a common moor of more than 300 acres , in the neigh- bourhood of the town ...
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... inhabitants wantonly allowed their poul- try to trespass upon crops of grain . Oatmeal is formed into dough , with strong pickle , or rather with the brine of old salted beef . Pieces of the dough are scattered near the corn - field ...
... inhabitants wantonly allowed their poul- try to trespass upon crops of grain . Oatmeal is formed into dough , with strong pickle , or rather with the brine of old salted beef . Pieces of the dough are scattered near the corn - field ...
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... inhabitants then derived their subsistence chiefly from the produce of the town acres , grazing their cattle on the se- veral commons belonging to the place , and from the fish of Lochleven . Between sixty and seventy new houses have ...
... inhabitants then derived their subsistence chiefly from the produce of the town acres , grazing their cattle on the se- veral commons belonging to the place , and from the fish of Lochleven . Between sixty and seventy new houses have ...
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Page 505 - So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 332 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt...
Page 479 - ... acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press, and for the same cause I ought to have the same fears still...
Page 332 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake into so many portions, as similar as possible to one another in size and shape, as there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal, until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet.
Page 358 - ... barbarity. His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Page 332 - Beltan or 2&/-&2#-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the...
Page 358 - The first race of scholars, in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for tho 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 307 - I lived a virgin's life : Ten times five years I was a virtuous wife : Ten times five years I lived a widow chaste ; Now, weary'd of this mortal life, I rest.
Page 293 - ... having ascended from the coal-pit, and seeing himself without any previous intimation surrounded by the sea, he was seized with an immediate apprehension of some plot against his liberty or life, and called out ' Treason ! ' But his faithful guide quickly dispelled his fears by assuring him that he was in perfect safety, and pointing to an elegant pinnace that was made fast to the moat, desired to know whether it was most agreeable to his Majesty to be carried ashore in it, or return by the way...
Page 326 - Turn your astonish'd eyes ; behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock ; firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Tho' even a giant's prowess nerv'd his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.