Palace of History: Catalogue of Exhibits [at The] Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art & Industry, Glasgow (1911). |
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18th century 1st Earl Aberdeen Alexander Allan Ramsay Andrew Archibald Argyll Bishop Blade Born brass BROOCH Bruce burgh Bust C. E. WHITELAW Campbell Castle Charter COUNTESS Covenant Covenanters dated daughter David died Duke Dundee Edinburgh engraved F.S.A. Scot FACULTY OF ADVOCATES flint lock France George Glasgow Cathedral Gordon Graham Halfpenny Hamilton Highland History interlaced Jacobite James VI King James King's Lent by CHARLES Lent by JOHN Lent by MISS Lent by REV Lent by ROBERT Lent by SIR Lent by SUPERINTENDENT Lent by W. B. Lent by WILLIAM LETTER Literature LL.D London Lord Maker's initials Marquis Medal Mid Gallery minister Montrose Murray Parish Church Perth PISTOL portrait Prince Charles Prince Charles Edward Printed Professor Queen of Scots Ramsay Regiment Relics Robert Burns Royal Scottish Seal Silver Sir John Sir Walter Scott Stewart Stirling Stuart SUPERINTENDENT ORD Thomas UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW W. B. SMITH W. S. Lincoln
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Page 434 - ... the Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches, and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops priests, and deacons.
Page 115 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 165 - I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our...
Page 427 - The Booke of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments. And other parts of divine service for the use of the Church of Scotland.
Page 166 - We left Kenmure, and went to Gatehouse. I took him the moor-road, where savage and desolate regions extended wide around. The sky was sympathetic with the wretchedness of the soil ; it became lowering and dark. The hollow winds sighed, the lightnings gleamed, the thunder rolled. The poet enjoyed the awful scene — he spoke not a word, but seemed rapt in meditation. In a little while the rain began to fall ; it poured in floods upon us. For three hours did the wild elements "rumble their bellyful
Page 168 - I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock: I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia, The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast...
Page 168 - A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Page 479 - An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts...
Page 427 - Scotland. [The Psalter, or, Psalmes of David : according to the last translation in King James his time. Pointed as they shall be said or sung throughout all the Churches of Scotland.] Edinburgh: Robert Young;, [1636j-37.
Page 45 - Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?