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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... ruins of Castle Campbell . A fine view of them is obtained from a bridge over a small brook that runs through the village . Its situation appears pe- culiarly wild and inaccessible . It stands on an insulated mount of rock , formed by ...
... ruins of Castle Campbell . A fine view of them is obtained from a bridge over a small brook that runs through the village . Its situation appears pe- culiarly wild and inaccessible . It stands on an insulated mount of rock , formed by ...
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... ruin . The tower is still tolerably entire , but the rest of the building is hastening fast into total ruin . Montrose's army , when they burned this castle , destroyed every house in the parish of Dollar , and in the adjoining parish ...
... ruin . The tower is still tolerably entire , but the rest of the building is hastening fast into total ruin . Montrose's army , when they burned this castle , destroyed every house in the parish of Dollar , and in the adjoining parish ...
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... ruins . In the same neigh- bourhood are the remains of some other ancient towers : one in particular at a place called Heart aw , which be longed to the Stewarts of Rosyth , from whom Oliver Cromwell is said to have been descended by ...
... ruins . In the same neigh- bourhood are the remains of some other ancient towers : one in particular at a place called Heart aw , which be longed to the Stewarts of Rosyth , from whom Oliver Cromwell is said to have been descended by ...
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... ruins of the celebrated castle of Lochleven . Besides , there must be deducted the area of two small spots of ground in the The extent of the loch , consisting of about two acres . The sur- loch must vary somewhat in different seasons ...
... ruins of the celebrated castle of Lochleven . Besides , there must be deducted the area of two small spots of ground in the The extent of the loch , consisting of about two acres . The sur- loch must vary somewhat in different seasons ...
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... ruin . Proper attention is not always paid to keep them in repair ; and this is a temptation to the pigeons to desert them . Even those which are kept in good order are not in general so well stocked as they once were . This ...
... ruin . Proper attention is not always paid to keep them in repair ; and this is a temptation to the pigeons to desert them . Even those which are kept in good order are not in general so well stocked as they once were . This ...
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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.
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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.
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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.