Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces: With Letters Containing a Comparative View of the Modes of Living, Arts, Commerce, Literature, Manners, &c. of Edinburgh, at Different PeriodsGeorge Ramsay and Company, 1815 - 372 pàgines A collection of essays which mostly appeared in the Edinburgh Courant, the Caledonian Mercury, and the Edinburgh Gazette; edited and for the most part writtten by William Creech. |
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Pàgina xvii
... thought not unsuitable , in the present publication , to preserve a view of it , by the engraving at the end of this sketch . • See Lord Woodhouselee's Life of Kames . 23d January 1779 , and continued till Saturday the 27th LIFE OF MR ...
... thought not unsuitable , in the present publication , to preserve a view of it , by the engraving at the end of this sketch . • See Lord Woodhouselee's Life of Kames . 23d January 1779 , and continued till Saturday the 27th LIFE OF MR ...
Pàgina xxiii
... thoughts on this point , which will go far to determine me . Let me know , too , whether it would be best to print at Edin- burgh ; and in that case , whether you could contrive to frank the proofs to Aberdeen , that I might cor- rect ...
... thoughts on this point , which will go far to determine me . Let me know , too , whether it would be best to print at Edin- burgh ; and in that case , whether you could contrive to frank the proofs to Aberdeen , that I might cor- rect ...
Pàgina xxiv
... thought a few weeks of the air and mineral water , to be had on that promontory , would cure , as has happened accordingly . " " I am glad you found this town so agreeable . I wish I had seen you in it , or had met you somewhere in the ...
... thought a few weeks of the air and mineral water , to be had on that promontory , would cure , as has happened accordingly . " " I am glad you found this town so agreeable . I wish I had seen you in it , or had met you somewhere in the ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... thought or research . His fre- quently repeated wishes were for " retirement and li- terary leisure , " but these , when in his power , were for- gotten ; the charms of conviviality were with him irre- sistible . In the middle part of ...
... thought or research . His fre- quently repeated wishes were for " retirement and li- terary leisure , " but these , when in his power , were for- gotten ; the charms of conviviality were with him irre- sistible . In the middle part of ...
Pàgina 6
... thought proper to thank his servants for this piece of attention to economy , it cannot , with any propriety , be made the foundation of a loyal address that would be graciously received . " IX . That it is the opinion of this meeting ...
... thought proper to thank his servants for this piece of attention to economy , it cannot , with any propriety , be made the foundation of a loyal address that would be graciously received . " IX . That it is the opinion of this meeting ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 230 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song ; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, 'tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Pàgina 138 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Pàgina 149 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Pàgina 332 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 253 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Pàgina 170 - Free and unquestion'd through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor, weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, If, strongly charm 'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray; Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame. In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, 1 In vain look back to what she was before; > She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more...
Pàgina 200 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Pàgina 179 - She never interrupted any person who spoke; she laughed at no mistakes they made, but helped them out with modesty; and if a good thing were spoken, but neglected, she would not let it fall, but set it in the best light to those who were present.