A journey from Edinburgh through parts of North Britain, Том 1

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Стр. 136 - Let them bestow on every airth* a limb, Then open all my veins, — that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake — Then place my parboiled head upon a stake ; Scatter my ashes— strew them in the air; — Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
Стр. 305 - O sacred solitude ! divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid : The genuine offspring of her lov'd embrace, (Strangers on earth !) are innocence...
Стр. 247 - ... and good offices of our honourable patrons,* this University can now boast of the number and variety of its institutions for the instruction of youth in all the branches of literature and science. " With what integrity and discernment persons have been chosen to preside in each of these departments, the character of my learned colleagues affords the most satisfying evidence.
Стр. 364 - Ballangeich * desired to speak with the King of Kippen. The porter telling Arnpryor so much, he in all humble manner came and received the king, and having entertained him with much sumptuousness and jollity, became so agreeable to King James, that he allowed him to take...
Стр. 333 - Edinburgh, and during that and the following years, read lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, under the patronage of Lord Kames. About this time, too, he contracted a very intimate friendship, which continued without interruption till his death, with Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, now Lord Loughborough, and with Mr. William Johnstone, now Mr. Pulteney. At what particular period his acquaintance with Mr. David Hume commenced, does not appear from any information that I have received ; but from some...
Стр. 247 - Edinburgh has not only become a seat of education to youth in every part of the British dominions, but, to the honour of our country, students have been attracted to it from almost every nation in Europe, and every state in America.
Стр. 137 - It was the calm employment of his mind that night to reduce this extravagant sentiment to verse. He appeared next day on the scaffold, in rich habit, with the same serene and undaunted countenance, and addressed the people, to vindicate his dying unabsolved by the church, rather than to justify an invasion of the kingdom during a treaty with the Estates. The insults of his enemies were not yet exhausted. The history of his exploits...
Стр. 307 - THE low birth and indigent condition of this " * * man placed him in a station in which he ought naturally to have remained unknown to posterity. But what fortune called him to act and to suffer in Scotland, obliges history to descend from its dignity, and to record his adventures.
Стр. 284 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of a " great man " is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.
Стр. 347 - Samuel was sent to France, To learn to sing and dance, And play upon a fiddle, Now he's a man of great esteem : His mother got him in a dream, At Culross on a girdle.

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