The West of Scotland in History: Being Brief Notes Concerning Events, Family Traditions, Topography, and Institutions |
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... born 1841 , succeeded 1869 . BATTLE OF LANGSIDE . EARLY in May , 1568 , the news of Queen Mary's escape from Lochleven flashed through Scotland , and across the Borders to England and the Continent . On the evening of the 2nd , through ...
... born 1841 , succeeded 1869 . BATTLE OF LANGSIDE . EARLY in May , 1568 , the news of Queen Mary's escape from Lochleven flashed through Scotland , and across the Borders to England and the Continent . On the evening of the 2nd , through ...
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... biographies in the English language , was born in 1740 , studied at Glasgow and Utrecht for the bar , and passed advocate 1766. Visiting London in 1763 , he made the acquaintance of Johnson at the 24 THE WEST COUNTRY IN HISTORY .
... biographies in the English language , was born in 1740 , studied at Glasgow and Utrecht for the bar , and passed advocate 1766. Visiting London in 1763 , he made the acquaintance of Johnson at the 24 THE WEST COUNTRY IN HISTORY .
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... born October 9th , 1775 , was educated at Westminster and Oxford , and created a baronet for his patriotic zeal during the threatening Radical disturbances of 1821 . He was not spared to enjoy the honour for any long season . The ...
... born October 9th , 1775 , was educated at Westminster and Oxford , and created a baronet for his patriotic zeal during the threatening Radical disturbances of 1821 . He was not spared to enjoy the honour for any long season . The ...
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... born 1806 , and married , 1830 , Jessie Jane , daughter of Sir J. Montgomery Cunningham , Bart . , with issue , two daughters . Young Sir James died in 1857 , a few years after he had succeeded in reducing what was intended to be a very ...
... born 1806 , and married , 1830 , Jessie Jane , daughter of Sir J. Montgomery Cunningham , Bart . , with issue , two daughters . Young Sir James died in 1857 , a few years after he had succeeded in reducing what was intended to be a very ...
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... Born in 1718 , his father , also William , died suddenly a few days after his election for Renfrewshire ; so that the infant heir was left under the sole guardianship of his mother , a woman of sense and piety , who , in course of time ...
... Born in 1718 , his father , also William , died suddenly a few days after his election for Renfrewshire ; so that the infant heir was left under the sole guardianship of his mother , a woman of sense and piety , who , in course of time ...
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Page 330 - Renowned in Border story. Fair scenes for childhood's opening bloom, For sportive youth to stray in, For manhood to enjoy his strength ; And age to wear away in...
Page 260 - Poet's tomb is there. But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns...
Page 249 - My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming < young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking a farewell before she should embark for the West Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.
Page 115 - Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAGINN, Who, with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to win, Had neither great lord nor rich cit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; So, his portion soon spent — like the poor heir of Lynn — He turned author...
Page 86 - As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 225 - Cathedral, and build, with the material thereof, some little churches in other parts for the ease of the citizens. Divers reasons were given for it, such as the resort of superstitious people to do their devotion in that place ; the huge vastness of the church, and that the voice of a preacher could not be heard by the multitudes that convened to sermon ; the more commodious service of the people ; and the removing of that idolatrous monument (so they called it) which was, Of all the cathedrals in...
Page 248 - For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the battle of Bothwell Bridge.
Page 115 - Irish brains he would spin ; Who received prose and rhyme with a promising grin — " Go a-head, you queer fish, and more power to your fin," But to save from starvation stirred never a pin. Light for long was his heart, though his breeches were thin, Else his acting for certain was equal to Quin ; But at last he was beat, and sought help of the bin (All the same to the doctor, from claret to gin), Which led swiftly to jail, and consumption therein.
Page 66 - The brook took them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean, — and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all . the world over.
Page 250 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...