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Pagina 13
... son of William Fergusson and Elizabeth Forbes . Having serv- ed an apprenticeship to a merchant in Aber- deen , William Fergusson came to Edinburgh , in the year 1746 , in search of employment . For a considerable time after he resided ...
... son of William Fergusson and Elizabeth Forbes . Having serv- ed an apprenticeship to a merchant in Aber- deen , William Fergusson came to Edinburgh , in the year 1746 , in search of employment . For a considerable time after he resided ...
Pagina 14
... sons and two daughters * . Robert , the younger son , was born at Edinburgh , on the 5th of September 1750. During the years of his early infancy , his constitution was so extremely delicate , that his life was frequently despaired of ...
... sons and two daughters * . Robert , the younger son , was born at Edinburgh , on the 5th of September 1750. During the years of his early infancy , his constitution was so extremely delicate , that his life was frequently despaired of ...
Pagina 22
... sons of Anglia to bemoan " Their fate at Bannockburn , where thousands came , " Never to tread their native soil again * . " In these circumstances , independent of all direct and positive testimony , there is sufficient * A Saturday's ...
... sons of Anglia to bemoan " Their fate at Bannockburn , where thousands came , " Never to tread their native soil again * . " In these circumstances , independent of all direct and positive testimony , there is sufficient * A Saturday's ...
Pagina 30
... son's mind engrossed by matters foreign to his task , that , in the course of one forenoon , he blundered the same extract two different times . When he returned to the office in the evening , he found that the paper had been much ...
... son's mind engrossed by matters foreign to his task , that , in the course of one forenoon , he blundered the same extract two different times . When he returned to the office in the evening , he found that the paper had been much ...
Pagina 51
... son , that tended , in any degree , to illustrate his real character . It is my decided purpose , to tell the truth , and all the truth ; nor , in my apprehension , does the mention of the fact , now for the first time brought into view ...
... son , that tended , in any degree , to illustrate his real character . It is my decided purpose , to tell the truth , and all the truth ; nor , in my apprehension , does the mention of the fact , now for the first time brought into view ...
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Pagina 116 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 250 - Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pagina 266 - For a' that life ahint can spare. The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend), Her sad confinement ill can brook In some dark chamber's dowy nook ; Tho' Mary's hand his nebb supplies, Unkend to hunger's painfu...
Pagina 248 - He maunna care for being seen Before he sheath His body in a scabbard clean O' gude Braid Claith. For, gin he come wi...
Pagina 288 - And dim our dolefu' days wi' bairnly fear ; The mind's aye cradled when the grave is near. Yet thrift, industrious, bides her latest days, Tho' age her sair-dow'd front wi' runcles wave ; Yet frae the russet lap the spindle plays ; Her e'enin stent reels she as weel's the lave. On some feast-day the wee things, buskit braw, Shall heeze her heart up wi...
Pagina 247 - Wi' gude Braid Claith. On Sabbath-days the barber spark, Whan he has done wi' scrapin wark, Wi' siller broachie in his sark, Gangs trigly, faith ! Or to the Meadow, or the Park, In gude Braid Claith.
Pagina 320 - On einings cauld wi' glee we'd trudge To heat our shins in Johnny's lodge; The de'il ane thought his bum to budge Wi' siller on us : To claw het pints we'd never grudge O
Pagina 243 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters...
Pagina 198 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Pagina 313 - I'd been there, How I wad trimm'd the bill o' fare ! For ne'er sic surly wight as he Had met wi' sic respect frae me. Mind ye what Sam,' the lying loun ! Has in his Dictionar laid down ? That aits in England are a feast To cow an' horse, an' sican beast, While in Scots ground this growth was common To gust the gab o