The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries

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T. and A. Constable, 1893
 

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Page 161 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Page 30 - States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.
Page 123 - The History of the World: The Second Part, in six Books: Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight: Beginning where he left; viz. at the End of the Macedonian Kingdom, and deduced to these Later-Times...
Page 129 - Marcus Knox, a merchant in Glasgow, zealous for the interest of the Reformed Religion, caused me to be fabricated in Holland, for the use of his fellow citizens of Glasgow, and placed me with solemnity in the Tower of their Cathedral.
Page 160 - The above are pieces of the outside and inside of that identical waistcoat, which Macdonald of Kingsburgh gave to the Prince, when he laid aside the woman's clothes. The said waistcoat being too fine for a servant, [in which character Charles then appeared,] the Prince exchanged it with Malcolm Macleod.
Page 129 - Ye who hear me, come to learn of holy doctrine ;" and I was taught to proclaim the hours of unheeded time. One hundred and ninety-five years had I sounded these awful warnings, when I was broken by the hands of inconsiderate and unskilful men. In the year 1790 1 was cast into the furnace, refounded at London, and returned to my sacred vocation. Reader ! thou also shall know a resurrection — may it be unto eternal life !' If there was no peculiar felicity in the old inscriptions, they were usually...
Page 150 - John Knox, the celebrated Reformer, left three daughters, one of whom was married to a Mr. Baillie of the Jerviswood family,1 and by him had a daughter, who was married to a Mr. Kirkton of Edinburgh. By this marriage Mr. Kirkton had a daughter Margaret, who was married to Dr. Andrew Skene in Aberdeen. Dr. Skene left several children, the eldest of whom, Dr. Andrew Skene, had by his wife, Miss Lumsden of Cushnie, several sons and daughters. One of these, Mary, was married to Andrew Thomson of Banchory,...
Page 20 - This place is distinguished from afar, by a small plantation of firs, the Cyprian grove of the place — a sort of land-mark for fugitive lovers.
Page 65 - From the greed of the Campbells, From the ire of the Drummonds, From the pride of the Grahams, From the wind of the Murrays, Good Lord, deliver us...
Page 172 - O bonnie man ! if there's onie mercy i' thee human breast, gae back me skin ! I cinno', cinno', cinno', live i' the sea without it. I cinno', cinno', cinno', bide among me ain folk without me am seal skin. Oh, pity a peur distressed, forlorn lass, gin doo wad ever hope for mercy theesel' ! " The goodman was not too soft-hearted, yet he could not help pitying her in her doleful plight. And with his pity came the softer passion of love. His heart that never loved women before was conquered by the sea-nymph's...

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