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Page 175 - for Scotland, left the name Of Wallace to be found, like a wild flower, All over his dear country, left the deeds Of Wallace, like a family of ghosts, To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a local soul Of independence and stern liberty." Among the 13,000 coins recently found in Aberdeen there were many in which Edward was styled
Page 154 - of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle; in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, and in which he who had a turn for natural
Page 87 - to manage the business of the Society. VII.—None of these Rules shall be repealed or altered, and no new Rule shall be adopted, unless by the votes of at least two-thirds of the Members present at a meeting of the Society specially called for the purpose. December, 1900.
Page 160 - ' Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow !
Page 111 - I know no part of Scotland so much and so visibly improved within thirty years as Aberdeenshire. At the beginning of that time the country between Keith and Stonehaven was little else than a hopeless region of stones and moss. There were pieces of many miles where literally there was nothing but large white
Page 95 - with an Appendix (I.) about their King's Supremacy ; (II.) the difference of the Scotch and English Liturgy; (III.) the Revenue and Expenditure on the Civil and Military List, according to a late Establishment. Written by the late Rev. Mr. Thomas Morer, Minister of St. Ann's within Aldersgate, when he was Chaplain to a Scotch Rsgiment, London : Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers
Page 260 - opposing things which are not, surely, in their nature incompatible, " is worth the diapason of all the church music in the world." During the Commonwealth the music books of the cathedrals were burnt, and many of the organs broken up. Buckle tells us how the
Page 75 - a' his black baird bloody, Wi' scarts that day." " A Gilpy that had seen the faught, I wat he was nae lang, Till he had gather'd seven or aught Wild Hempies stout and strang ; They frae a barn a kaber raught, Ann mounted wi' a bang, Betwisht twa's shouders, and sat
Page 167 - the seas With Carthagenian gore ; Who great Antiochus overcame, And Hannibal of yore. " But they, of rustic warriors wight The manly offspring, learned to smite The soil with Babine spade. And faggots they had

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