Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow

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Caledonian Press, 1864 - 341 páginas
 

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Página 3 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 270 - George 4th, intituled an act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain and of the increase or diminution thereof (1831).
Página 66 - Douglas ; and the poet expressed such raptufie with the scenery, that his hosts urged him to accept, for his lifetime, the use of a small habitable house, enclosed within the circuit of the ancient walls.
Página 106 - The Bishops are as unfair and partial in representing the security of their property as that of their religion ; for when they mention it, they do not say a word of the vast load of debt that increases yearly, under which the nation is groaning, and which must be paid (if ever they intend to pay it) out of their property.
Página 109 - ... of papistry in general and particular heads, even as they are now damned and confuted by the word of God and kirk of Scotland. But in special we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Roman Antichrist upon the scriptures of God, upon the kirk, the civil magistrate, and...
Página 36 - And I consent to the registration hereof in the books of council and session, or any other judges books competent; therein to remain for preservation; and thereto I constitute my procurators, &c.
Página 211 - Who left his blissful seats above, Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god; Sublime on radiant spires he rode When he to fair Olympia pressed...
Página 104 - ... by his large fortune ; but I am told I can hardly flatter myself with the hopes of it. The hard usage which his family has received from ours, has sunk deep into his mind. What have those princes to answer for...
Página 76 - Somervilles, vol. ii. When we recollect when and by WHOM a miracle was wrought for the express purpose of continuing the innocent festivities usually attendant upon such a joyful occasion, we must hesitate to adopt a creed so...
Página 1 - He betook himself to his usual lurking places in the north of England, but Elizabeth, in compliance with James's remonstrances, obliged him to quit his retreat. Abandoned by the Queen of England, excommunicated by the church, and deserted in his distress by his followers, he was obliged to fly for safety to France, and thence to...

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