The Book of Old Edinburgh: With Historical Accounts of the Buildings Therein Reproduced and Anecdotes of Edinburgh Life in the Olden Time

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O. Anderson and Ferrier, 1896 - 160 pàgines
 

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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...

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