Landmarks of Old StirlingE. Mackay, 1899 - 383 pàgines |
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Abbey of Dunfermline Abbot Airthrey Aisle Alexander Allan Park altar ancient Andro appointed arch attend frae Bailie befoir bell belonging bridge of Stirling building burgess ticket burgh of Stirling Burgh Records called Cambuskenneth Abbey Cartulary of Cambuskenneth century chapel charter common seal congregation Counsall Cowane Cowane's Hospital Croft dask David Dean of Guild Duncan Duncan Watson Earl East Edinburgh Eldars entry erected frae gate Glasgow granted Guildry Honourable hous James Guthrie James VI John July King King's Kirk Session lands loft Lord Magistrates Maister manse March meit Mercate Cross merkis Mill Ninians nixt ordained Parish Church parish of Stirling Parliament pillar Port present Provost Queen quhilk day Raploch Reformation road Robert Royal royal burgh Scotland Scots seat Sonday south side Spittal stone Street Symson thair thairfor thairof Thomas tithes toun Town Council Town Wall tyme umquhill West Church William William the Lion window Wynd
Passatges populars
Pàgina xxiii - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pàgina xxiii - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pàgina 89 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Pàgina 93 - Rendered into English, the preceding instrument reads thus : " William, King of Scots, to all good men, clerical and lay, greeting: Wit ye me to have granted and given, and by this my present charter confirmed to God and the Church of the Holy Trinity...
Pàgina 89 - For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay, even of approval or condemnation, which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.
Pàgina 186 - The tinkling of the silver bell, or the sisters' holy hymn. And there five noble maidens sat, beneath the orchard trees, In that first budding spring of youth, when all its prospects please ; And little...
Pàgina 305 - For Freedom's battle once begun. Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft. is ever won.
Pàgina 129 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Pàgina 191 - Two-thousand horse and more foot; and the place standing upon a river not navigable for shipping to relieve the same,
Pàgina 192 - Dean, and some others, up to Bannockburn ; hearing that the Enemy were marched on the other side towards our forces in Fife. Indeed they went four or five miles on towards them ; but hearing of my advance, in all haste they retreated back, and possessed the Park, and their other works. Which we viewed ; and finding them not advisable to attempt, resolved to march to...