category: edinburgh scotland

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

... dash of the eccentric . The ingenuity of the farmer's son was to be employed ... silent birth - place of the dew , Where life and lustre spring . And then ... circle countless spheres , Old spirits of the skies ! The same through nature's ...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

... sheet beside him . To this plan of opera- tions he used to refer with ... castle wa ' . Beneath the gowden gloaming sky The mavis mends her lay , The ... music of some of his finest songs , and for much , consequently , of their lasting ...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

... tinkers , costermon- gers , and all , not forgetting those smugglers who ... limbs than those which less liable to disease , and more capable of vigorous ex are ... bow - leaders in the Defiance Edinburgh and Aberdeen to their mind , that ...

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

... orb . According to this hypothesis , there would be spots on the sun every ... floating on a liquid surface , and ejected from solar volcanoes , of which ... theory out of the region of simple hypothesis , and give certainty to our ...

The Traveller's Companion Through the City of Edinburgh and Suburbs: Comprehending a Concise History of the City, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Period; with a Description of the Public Buildings, Illustrated with Engravings. To which are Added Several Views Taken in the Environs of the City

... guard was appointed . This had fuch an effect , that , in 1679 , a guard of 40 men was appointed , and the number aug- mented to 108 in 1692. A petition was given in to go- vernment , after the Revolution , fetting forth , that the ...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

... rich absentee Lord T , and endeavoured to wring his share of the rent out of ... dad , every thing . It ' id make them young ( Pat twitched up the right leg with a half audible ... poor child- her do , I wondher , that's set at letthers as long ...

Eccentric Edinburgh

... tests - how many fingers am I holding up , blink the answer after being retrieved from the basket . I can't imagine that doing a multiple - choice test correctly would be the main thing on your mind in those circumstances . Frankenstein ...

Mystifications, ed. by J. Brown

... Lady Catherine Howard vanished as if by magic . Lady Hunter gazed for a moment as if a spirit had passed before her , started from her chair , then rushed forward with open arms , kissed and embraced the humble individual who filled her ...

Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time

... mark of sylver , and to the Repa- ratioun , bylding and uphalding of the ... TAILORS . - The Corporation of Tailors , a more ancient fraternity ... grand- master which had been granted by James II . to William St Clair of Roslin , and to ...

The Commissariot Record of Edinburgh. Register of Testaments. 1514-1600[-1701-1800]

... Robert Whyte , burgess of Kirkcaldy 14 Jan. 1586-7 6 Aug. 1584 5 Aug. 1586 99 Patrik , in Quhitburne - mylne . See ... Whyteburgh , George , indweller in Leith , on the North - syd thereof Whytefurde , David , in Balloch , in Carrik ...

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

... bleach upon the sand . That is the reason why I have disliked the trade of ... torrent on the opposite side of the valley . We rode to the place indicated ... torrent , as the gold - seeker still continued to work at the dam , and ...

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