The Book of Old Edinburgh: With Historical Accounts of the Buildings Therein Reproduced and Anecdotes of Edinburgh Life in the Olden TimeO. Anderson and Ferrier, 1896 - 160 pàgines |
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The Book of Old Edinburgh: With Historical Accounts of the Buildings Therein ... John Charles Dunlop,Alison Hay Dunlop Visualització completa - 1896 |
The Book of Old Edinburgh: With Historical Accounts of the Buildings Therein ... John Charles Dunlop,Alison Hay Dunlop Visualització completa - 1893 |
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Abbotsford ancient Argyll Auld beautiful Black Turnpike Blue Blanket Bluidie Bothwell Bow-head house Brigadier building burgh Canongate capital Cardinal Beaton Castle Hill ceiling century Chapel Charles Church citizens Cowgate Cowgate House Cross Cunzie-House Darnley death door Duke Earl England erected fathers Flodden floor front gable George gold Gourlay's Grassmarket Guise Palace High Kirk High Street Holyrood house of Guise James VI John King James King's land Leith Wynd Lord Luckenbooths Magistrates MAJOR WEIR'S HOUSE Mary of Guise medallions Mercat Croce Nether-Bow Port old city Old Edin Old Parliament House Oratory Parliament Close Parliament Hall Parliament Stairs Paul's Wark pleasant Porteous Mob Prince prison Provost Queen Mary Regent Morton Robert Gourlay roof Royal Porch Scotland Scottish side Sir Walter Scott Stewart Stirling stone stood story Symson tion Tolbooth Tom Purdie tower Town Guard Weir West Wullies
Passatges populars
Pàgina 150 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Pàgina 35 - Wi' eerie drone ; Or, rustlin', thro' the boortrees comin', Wi' heavy groan. Ae dreary windy winter night The stars shot down wi...
Pàgina 28 - ... hes restleslie, both when wee wer awake and manie tymes in our sleip, so stirred up our thoghtis and bended our desyris to make a Jornay thither that wee can never rest satisfied till it...
Pàgina 104 - ... by his large fortune ; but I am told I can hardly flatter myself with the hopes of it. The hard usage which his family has received from ours, has sunk deep into his mind.
Pàgina 56 - Mackingie, come out if ye daur, Lift the sneck, and draw the bar...
Pàgina 2 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Pàgina 143 - ... feel Its influence. Let mirth abound; let social cheer Invest the dawning of the year; Let blithesome innocence appear, To crown our joy; Nor envy, wi' sarcastic sneer, Our bliss destroy.
Pàgina 104 - French, who if they should come only as friends to assist your Majesty in the recovery of your just rights, the weak people would believe came as invaders.
Pàgina 11 - Portobellot shall be a lodge for the captors of tea and brandy. The city shall be joined to Leith on the north, and a procession of wise masons shall there lay the foundations of a spacious harbour. Pequin or Nanquin shall not be able to compare with Edinburgh for magnificence. Our city shall be the greatest wonder of the world, and the fame of its glory shall reach the distant ends of the...