Chronicles of saint Mungo: or, Antiquities and traditions of GlasgowJohn Smith & Son, 1843 - 434 страници |
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... most to be regretted is , that those circumstances , though of much importance in the history of civil society at the time they prevail , are no sooner passed than they are entirely forgotten . At the 4 CHRONICLES OF ST . MUNGO .
... most to be regretted is , that those circumstances , though of much importance in the history of civil society at the time they prevail , are no sooner passed than they are entirely forgotten . At the 4 CHRONICLES OF ST . MUNGO .
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Kentigern (st.) sooner passed than they are entirely forgotten . At the time they are in existence no person attempts to describe them with care , because they are then deemed to be of such public notoriety as to be known to all ; and ...
Kentigern (st.) sooner passed than they are entirely forgotten . At the time they are in existence no person attempts to describe them with care , because they are then deemed to be of such public notoriety as to be known to all ; and ...
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... passed and repassed previously , not an individual lost his life , or sustained any injury . The deficient arch was speedily replaced at the expense of the city , and a century after , in the year 1777 , it was widened ten feet * For ...
... passed and repassed previously , not an individual lost his life , or sustained any injury . The deficient arch was speedily replaced at the expense of the city , and a century after , in the year 1777 , it was widened ten feet * For ...
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... passed away , but the remembrance of which , serves strongly to remind us of the time when- " In Saxon strength proud Abbeys frown'd With massive arches , broad and round , That rose alternate , row and row , On ponderons columns ...
... passed away , but the remembrance of which , serves strongly to remind us of the time when- " In Saxon strength proud Abbeys frown'd With massive arches , broad and round , That rose alternate , row and row , On ponderons columns ...
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... passed into the hands of Mr. John Bell , minister of Cardross , and afterwards became the property of one of the city clergy , from whom , by a succession of other pro- prietors , it fell into the hands of a Mr. Crawford . PREBENDARY OF ...
... passed into the hands of Mr. John Bell , minister of Cardross , and afterwards became the property of one of the city clergy , from whom , by a succession of other pro- prietors , it fell into the hands of a Mr. Crawford . PREBENDARY OF ...
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afterwards ancient Andrew Andrew Foulis appeared appointed arms army arrived baillies bishop Bishop Cameron Bishop Elphinston Bishop of Glasgow Bridgegate building built burgh Campbell Captain Cathedral celebrated century church Church of Scotland citizens city of Glasgow civil Clyde College court covenanters divine Dumbarton Earl Edinburgh edition Elphinston eminent erected Finlay Glas Gorbals guard Hamilton High-Street honour Hospital inhabitants James John king known land leper leprosy letter Lord magistrates ment merchant minister Mungo native occasion parliament party period persons prebendary presbyterian present principal printed printer Professor Provost published rabble received rector Reformation river river Clyde Robert Foulis Rottenrow royal Royal Burgh Rutherglen Saltmarket Scotland Scottish sent side situated soon stones stood streets tion tolbooth took town trade Trongate tumult University of Glasgow William Wodrow Wynd
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Страница 49 - Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Страница 76 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Страница 39 - 11 superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated fields, and every field so replenished with thistles that a flower could scarcely flourish amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise, O Glasgow!
Страница 370 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Страница 370 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Страница 401 - ... before the bench, kept his eye fixed with calm earnestness on his Lordship's face, assenting now and then to the propriety of what he said, by exactly that sort of see-saw gesture which you may have seen escape now and then from the devout listener to a pathetic sermon or sacramental service. John, in a short speech of his own, expressed his sense of his guilt ; but even then he borrowed the language of Scripture, styling himself " a sinner, and the chief of sinners.
Страница 299 - That the complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, Whitehaven, &c. are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interests of trade, or to the King's revenue.
Страница 424 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Страница 110 - A priest robed with surplice and stole went with the cross to the house of the doomed leper. The minister of the church began the necessary ceremonies by exhorting him to suffer, with a patient and penitent spirit, the incurable plague with which God had stricken him. He then sprinkled the unfortunate leper with holy water, and afterwards conducted him to the church, the usual burial verses being sung during their march thither.
Страница 208 - Thereupon ensued a pitiful vastation of churches and church buildings throughout all parts of the realm ; for every one made bold to put to their hands, the meaner sort imitating the example of the greater and those who were in authority.