Dante and the Early AstronomersA. Wingate, 1807 - 359 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 58
Pagina
... tion of moral ideas , prefers glory to riches , and , instead of bowing to present power and up- start authority , devotes his attentions to great and permanent objects . He promotes the happiness with the improvement of mankind ...
... tion of moral ideas , prefers glory to riches , and , instead of bowing to present power and up- start authority , devotes his attentions to great and permanent objects . He promotes the happiness with the improvement of mankind ...
Pagina 18
... tion , summer and winter , castra stativa , during the seven campaigns made in Caledonia by Agricola . But there are not here any such vestiges of a town as at Camelon . Among the military prerogatives of Stirling , it may be mentioned ...
... tion , summer and winter , castra stativa , during the seven campaigns made in Caledonia by Agricola . But there are not here any such vestiges of a town as at Camelon . Among the military prerogatives of Stirling , it may be mentioned ...
Pagina 19
... tion , might not rather be of the number , he would not determine ; but in this easy division of territory he thinks it indispensably necessary that to every city all the adjacent country should belong . Whatever may be thought of Mr ...
... tion , might not rather be of the number , he would not determine ; but in this easy division of territory he thinks it indispensably necessary that to every city all the adjacent country should belong . Whatever may be thought of Mr ...
Pagina 23
... tion , than the straths on the banks of the Forth . The water here , as well as in most other low - lying places , is often muddy , and the people apt , though not so much as formerly , to be attacked with agues , or intermitting fevers ...
... tion , than the straths on the banks of the Forth . The water here , as well as in most other low - lying places , is often muddy , and the people apt , though not so much as formerly , to be attacked with agues , or intermitting fevers ...
Pagina 37
... tion , instead of increase of gold and silver at the present day , than its having been hid in times of civil discord . As there are strata of coal of various depths all over this part of the country , and numerous coal pits , I went ...
... tion , instead of increase of gold and silver at the present day , than its having been hid in times of civil discord . As there are strata of coal of various depths all over this part of the country , and numerous coal pits , I went ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Aberdeen Abernethey Aichil Andrews antient appearance Bamff banks beautiful Bothwell Castle Bressay Sound burgh Caithness Caledonian canal called canal Cape Wrath Carse of Gowrie castle cattle church clergyman Clyde coast College Crieff dressed earl earl of Fife Edinburgh elegant England excellent extensive farmers feet Fife fish Fort Augustus gentleman Glasgow ground hand handsome head heard Highlands hills horse hundred improvement inhabitants Inverness islands kind lady laird land lately live Loch London lord manner married ment miles minister natural neighbourhood observed Orkneys parish perhaps Perth Picts poor pounds sterling professors proprietors river road rock scarcely Scotch Scotland Scots seems seen servants sheep Shetland Shetland Isles shew side situated sometimes Spey Stirling stone tain tenants thing thousand pounds tion town trees twenty woman wood young
Populaire passages
Pagina 94 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
Pagina 554 - Neither is it any quantity of knowledge how great soever that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can fill, much less extend, the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God; and therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing...
Pagina 52 - I beg and entreat of you, dear and special friend, as earnestly as I can, that you would have the goodness to undertake this expedition for the love of me, and to acquit my soul to our Lord and Saviour ; for I have that opinion of your nobleness and loyalty, that, if you undertake it, it cannot fail of success — and I shall die more contented ; but it must be executed as follows : — " I will, that as soon as I shall be dead, you take...
Pagina 599 - And it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when the farmers who allow thistles, ragweed, and the like, to seed on their fields, without having attempted to prevent them, will be subjected to a penalty •f.
Pagina 365 - I observed two magpies hopping round a gooseberry bush, in a small garden, near a poor-looking house, in a peculiar manner, and flying out and into the bush. I stepped aside to see what they were doing, and found, from the poor man and his wife, that...
Pagina 53 - ... you sufficient to perform your journey, as well as for all those whom you may choose to take with you in your train ; you will then deposit your charge at the holy sepulchre of our Lord, where he was buried, since my body cannot go there. You will not be sparing of expense...
Pagina 161 - How sweet to stand, when tempests tear the main, On the firm cliff, and mark the seaman's toil ! Not that another's danger soothes the soul, But from such toil how sweet to feel secure...
Pagina 53 - All those present began bewailing bitterly; and when the Lord James could speak, he said, 'Gallant and noble king, I return you a hundred thousand thanks for the high honour you do me, and for the valuable and dear treasure with which you...
Pagina 106 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Pagina 103 - TUNE—" The Boatman." YE gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not this discover, While parents rate A large estate, Before a faithful lover. But I...