Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century:: Exhibiting the Whole of the New Buildings, Modern Improvements, Antiquities, and Picturesque Scenery, of the Scottish Metropolis and Its Environs,Jones & Company, 1829 |
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Pagina 6
... handsome squares , give an air of beauty , and even of grandeur , to parts of this newly - formed district . In these features it may be said to resemble the famed city of Washington , in America . Built on an eminence , about 200 feet ...
... handsome squares , give an air of beauty , and even of grandeur , to parts of this newly - formed district . In these features it may be said to resemble the famed city of Washington , in America . Built on an eminence , about 200 feet ...
Pagina 7
... The principal avenue in the New Town is George - street , which extends through the centre , and is terminated at the east end by St. Andrew's Square , in the centre of which , stands a handsome column , EDINBURGH . 9.
... The principal avenue in the New Town is George - street , which extends through the centre , and is terminated at the east end by St. Andrew's Square , in the centre of which , stands a handsome column , EDINBURGH . 9.
Pagina 8
... handsome column , erected to the memory of the late Lord Melville . At the west end of the same street is another quadrangular area , called Char- lotte Square , surrounded by large and respectable mansions . In a recess on the eastern ...
... handsome column , erected to the memory of the late Lord Melville . At the west end of the same street is another quadrangular area , called Char- lotte Square , surrounded by large and respectable mansions . In a recess on the eastern ...
Pagina 28
... handsome , it is rendered comparatively mean by its extreme breadth of roadway , extending between two rows of low houses , with broad slated roofs , unbroken and undignified by occasional projections or elevations . " * In a recent ...
... handsome , it is rendered comparatively mean by its extreme breadth of roadway , extending between two rows of low houses , with broad slated roofs , unbroken and undignified by occasional projections or elevations . " * In a recent ...
Pagina 31
... handsome public buildings , this theatre makes a very poor and mean appearance externally , although the interior is fitted up with some degree of attention to richness of effect . L THE JAIL - GOVERNOR'S HOUSE . This View is intended ...
... handsome public buildings , this theatre makes a very poor and mean appearance externally , although the interior is fitted up with some degree of attention to richness of effect . L THE JAIL - GOVERNOR'S HOUSE . This View is intended ...
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Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the ... John Britton,Thomas Hosmer Shepherd Volledige weergave - 1829 |
Modern Athens!: Displayed in a Series of Views: Or, Edinburgh in the ... John Britton Volledige weergave - 1829 |
Modern Athens!, Displayed in a Series of Views, or Edinburgh in the ... Thomas H. Shepherd Volledige weergave - 1833 |
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Pagina 54 - ... moments. The Earl of Morton, who was present at his funeral, pronounced his eulogium in a few words, the more honourable for Knox, as they came from one whom he had often censured with peculiar severity : " There lies he, who never feared the face of man.
Pagina 69 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Pagina 54 - Rigid and uncomplying himself, he showed no indulgence to the infirmities of others. Regardless of the distinctions of rank and character, he uttered his admonitions with an acrimony and vehemence, more apt to irritate than to reclaim.
Pagina 54 - Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of Providence for advancing the Reformation among a fierce people...
Pagina 53 - Zeal, intrepidity, disinterestedness, were virtues which he possessed in an eminent degree. He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated among divines in that age ; and excelled in that species of eloquence which is calculated to rouse and to inflame.!!
Pagina 39 - Plummer, at the same time, were appointed Secretaries. A few years afterwards, the meetings of the Society were interrupted for a considerable space of time by the disorders of the country, in the rebellion of 1745 ; and no sooner was public tranquillity re-established, than it suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. Maclaurin, whose comprehensive genius, and ardour in the pursuits of science, peculiarly qualified him for conducting the business of such an Institution. The meetings of the society...
Pagina 40 - ... the two most eminent disciples of the Newtonian school which Britain produced in the whole of the eighteenth century, — namely, Colin Maclaurin and Matthew Stewart. The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh was the immediate parent of the Royal Society.} The Royal Society of Edinburgh took its rise in a meeting of the Professors of the University of Edinburgh, many of whom were also members of the Philosophical Society,§ on the proposition of Priniii. p. 477), that, in 1743, the Society advertised...
Pagina 52 - Yards, the extensive enclosure called the King's Park, the Duke's Walk, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craigs, and St. Leonard's Hill. HOUSE OF JOHN KNOX. This ancient building is in no respect to be admired on account of its architectural peculiarities, which, if they belong to any definable order or species, must be arranged with those which no person of taste or judgment can approve. A pulpit, in which is an effigy of the individual of whose fame this plain building has been made to participate, ornaments...