A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volume 1Robert Chambers Blackie and son, 1835 - Scotland |
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... father , John Adam , rented one of those small farms which were formerly so common in the north of Scotland . In his ... father's cattle . Being des- tined by his parents , poor as they were , for a learned profession , he was kept at ...
... father , John Adam , rented one of those small farms which were formerly so common in the north of Scotland . In his ... father's cattle . Being des- tined by his parents , poor as they were , for a learned profession , he was kept at ...
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... father , inherited his taste , and lived in a time more favourable to its development . He was educated in the university of Edinburgh , where he enjoyed the kind attentions of Robertson , Smith , and Ferguson , all of whom were his ...
... father , inherited his taste , and lived in a time more favourable to its development . He was educated in the university of Edinburgh , where he enjoyed the kind attentions of Robertson , Smith , and Ferguson , all of whom were his ...
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... father and the son . By virtue as by nature close allied , The painter's genius , but without the pride . Worth ... father's anguish - wept , and died . The following verses , in which Thomson bewails him with all the warmth of grateful ...
... father and the son . By virtue as by nature close allied , The painter's genius , but without the pride . Worth ... father's anguish - wept , and died . The following verses , in which Thomson bewails him with all the warmth of grateful ...
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... father's version alone throughout his dominions ; and , if he had been successful , the privilege would have been a source of immense profit to the Earl of Stirling . But the royal wishes were resisted by the Scot- tish church , and ...
... father's version alone throughout his dominions ; and , if he had been successful , the privilege would have been a source of immense profit to the Earl of Stirling . But the royal wishes were resisted by the Scot- tish church , and ...
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... father , December 4 , 1214 , in his seventeenth year , and was crowned next day at Scone . Alexander II . is cha ... father in the eighth year of his age . He was knighted and crowned only five days after his father's death - a ...
... father , December 4 , 1214 , in his seventeenth year , and was crowned next day at Scone . Alexander II . is cha ... father in the eighth year of his age . He was knighted and crowned only five days after his father's death - a ...
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Page 477 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 293 - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things. And imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; And I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Page 12 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 149 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Page 55 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 301 - Go, and tell this people, HEAR ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 56 - What I did, I can assure you was not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, and an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust at the world ; for I have as great comfort in my own family and from the kindness of my friends as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities...
Page 56 - My family give you their love and service. The great loss I sustained in one of them, gave me my first shock ; and the trouble I have with the rest, to bring them to a right temper, to bear the loss of a father, who loves them, and whom they love, is really a most sensible affliction to me. I am afraid, my dear friend, we shall never see one another more in this world.
Page 389 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 127 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.