A sketch of the life of George Hope, compiled [from letters by and to G. Hope] by his daughter [C. Hope].1879 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
acres ADAM HOPE agricultural appeared believe Bill BORDLANDS BROTHER ADAM burgh candidate cattle cheers Church Cobden Committee Corn Laws crops dear delighted dinner Dirleton Drem East Aberdeenshire East Lothian Edinburgh election farm farmers father favour feel Fenton Barns Ferguson Free-trade Friday friends Game Laws GEORGE HOPE give glad Glencotho Haddington hear heard honour Hope writes Hope's hustings Hypothec interest John labour land landlord last night law of Hypothec lease letter Liberal look Lord Elcho Lord Ramsay meeting morning never newspaper Nisbet Hamilton North Berwick North British Railway o'clock O'Connell opinion paper pleased present question rent reply Robert Hope Saturday Scotland Scotsman seen sent Shirreff Sir David Baird speech tell tenant-farmers tenants thing thought tion told took Tory Unitarian vote walked week wheat whole wish wrote yesterday
Passatges populars
Pàgina 19 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For he knoweth our frame ; He remembereth that we are dust.
Pàgina 347 - O'er the rabble's laughter ; And while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter. Knowing this, that never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow ; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow. Thus, with somewhat of the Seer, Must the moral pioneer From the Future borrow ; Clothe the waste with dreams of grain, And, on midnight's sky of rain, Paint the golden morrow ! WHAT THE VOICE SAID.
Pàgina 20 - And he said unto him ; Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Pàgina 18 - PRAYER 0 thou, wha in the Heavens dost dwell, Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A' for thy glory, And no for ony guid or ill They've done afore thee!
Pàgina 125 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Pàgina 135 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Pàgina 18 - Thee! 1 bless and praise Thy matchless might, When thousands Thou hast left in night, That I am here afore Thy sight, For gifts an' grace A burning and a shining light To a
Pàgina 11 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!
Pàgina 240 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Pàgina 280 - The said Undertakers, their heirs and assigns, during the space of seven years next ensuing, shall have power to transport all commodities growing upon their own lands, which they shall...