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Page 287 - A stranger might have been accommodated, not only comfortably, but most elegantly, at many public hotels ; and the person who, in 1763, was obliged to put up with accommodation little better than that of a waggoner or carrier, may now be lodged like a prince, and command every luxury of life.
Page 131 - And the Right Honourable the Lords" Commissioners of His Majesty's "Treasury, His Majesty's Principal" Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and •the Judges of the Courts of Vice- Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures .herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Page 106 - Rizio to leave a place of which he was unworthy, and which he had occupied too long. Mary employed tears, and entreaties, and threatenings, to save her favourite. But, notwithstanding all these, he was torn from her by violence, and before he could be dragged through the next apartment, the rage of his enemies put an end to his life, piercing his body with fifty-six wounds.p ATHOL, Huntly, Bothwell, and other confidents of the Queen, who had apartments in the palace, were alarmed...
Page 276 - ... truth without offence, the excess of drinking was then far greater in general among the Scots than the English. Myself being at the court invited by some gentlemen to supper, and being forewarned to fear this excess, would not promise to sup with them, but upon condition that my inviter would be my protection from large drinking, which I was many times forced to invoke, being courteously entertained, and much provoked to carousing, and so for that time avoided any great intemperance.
Page 175 - Lordship, who, among your ancestors, reckon a man whose original and inventive genius places him high among the illustrious persons who have contributed most eminently to enlarge the boundaries of human knowledge. " Permit me to add what I regard as my own peculiar felicity, that, by having remained in my present station much longer than any of my predecessors, I have lived to witness an event so beneficial to this University, the prosperity of which is near to my heart, and has ever been the object...
Page 296 - Sylvius, who wrote about the middle of the fifteenth century, relates, that he saw in Scotland " the poor people who in rags begged at the churches, receive for alms pieces of stone, with which they went away contented. This species of stone, (says he,) whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute.
Page 287 - Some of them advertised the keeping of bears, to kill occasionally for greasing ladies' and gentlemen's hair, as superior to any other animal fat. Hairdressers were more than tripled in number, and their busiest day was on Sunday.
Page 275 - ... furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.
Page 275 - ... part, was bought by courtiers, gentlemen, and the best sort of citizens. . . . They drink pure wines, not with sugar as the English, yet at feasts they put comfits in the wine, after the French manner, but they had not our vinteners
Page 282 - With respect to lodging, the houses which in 1763 •were possessed by the first families, were twenty years after inhabited by tradesmen or by people in humble life. The Lord Justice Clerk's house was possessed by a French teacher, Lord President Craigie's house by a rouping-wife, (saleswoman of old furniture,) and Lord Drummore's house was left by a chairman for want of accommodation.