History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831, Volum 19[publisher not identified], printed for the club by Martin's Printing Works, Spittal, 1907 Contains it's Proceedings. |
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History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted ..., Volum 13 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) Visualització completa - 1892 |
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted ..., Volum 18 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) Visualització completa - 1904 |
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted ..., Volum 10 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) Visualització completa - 1885 |
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Pàgina 208 - Svo, 6s. The Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland, commonly known as John Knox's Liturgy.
Pàgina 299 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Pàgina 204 - I can forgive your little curiosity, madam, but you must pay the penalty. I may admit into my house, on a piece of business, persons wholly unworthy to be treated as guests by my wife. Neither lip of me nor of mine comes after Mr Murray of Broughton's." This was the unhappy man who, after attending Prince Charles Stuart as his secretary throughout the greater part of his expedition, condescended to redeem his own life and fortune by bearing evidence against the noblest of his late master's adherents,...
Pàgina 202 - Charles, Prince of Wales, and Regent of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging...
Pàgina 204 - When confronted with Sir John Douglas of Kelhead (ancestor of the Marquess of Queensberry), before the Privy Council in St James's, the prisoner was asked, " Do you know this witness?" " Not I," answered Douglas ; " I once knew a person who bore the designation of Murray of Broughton — but that was a gentleman and a man of honour, and one that could hold up his head!
Pàgina 76 - ... except the largest, which was blown down about the middle of the last century. They are of an extraordinary size ; the trunk of one of them is twenty-six feet six inches in circumference at the height of three feet from the ground ; and they stand so near each other as to form a cover almost equal to a thatched roof. Under these trees, we are told by tradition, the monks resided till they built the monastery ; which seems to be very probable, if we consider how little a Yewtree increases in a...
Pàgina 352 - AB, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of JK, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits...
Pàgina 44 - Good is it for us to dwell there — where man lives more purely, falls more rarely, rises more quickly, treads more cautiously, rests more securely, dies more happily, is absolved more easily, and is rewarded more plenteously." Every now and then they say in the castle of St. Aliquis: " Such and such a cavalier has become a monk! " Then there are cries of astonishment and probably slurring remarks, but even Conon in his heart wonders, "Has he not, after all, chosen the better part?
Pàgina 23 - Yarrow ; and when the swollen Tweed raves as it sweeps, red and broad, round the ruins of Dryburgh, you think of him who rests there — the magician asleep in the lap of legends old, the sorcerer buried in the heart of the land he has made enchanted.
Pàgina 136 - Tomlinson the name is derived from "the dwelling in the white meadow". There is an ancient church and at one time a vicarage, which was part of a Pele tower. The fortified house, once the property of the Herons, now bears the inscription: "By the munificence and piety of Lady Ravensworth, this ancient tower, which was formerly used by the villagers as a place of refuge in times of rapine and insecurity, was repaired and otherwise embellished for the use of the deserving poor. AD 1845.