The Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh with an Introductory Chapter on the Rise and Progress of Municipal Government in Scotland

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Colston & Company, and sold by R. Cameron, 1891 - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 237 pages

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Page 203 - Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Page 193 - His heart it was as blythe as birds on the tree: ' Never was I sent for before any king, My father, my grandfather, nor none but mee.
Page 175 - Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.
Page 203 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Page 179 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 234 - He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor : His righteousness endureth forever ; His horn shall be exalted with honor.
Page 194 - Asking grace of a graceles face — Why there is none for you nor me." But lonne had a bright sword by his side, And it was made of the mettle so free, That had not the king stept his foot aside, He had smitten his head from his faire bodde.
Page 203 - Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards. 18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Page 177 - Now like a Maiden Queen she will behold From her high turrets hourly suitors come ; The East with incense and the West with gold Will stand like suppliants to receive her doom.

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