The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 20W. Creech, 1798 |
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Aberdeen acres alfo almoſt alſo annually Auchterarder Banff barley befides beſt Biſhop bolls Caftle Caithness caſtle cattle church circumftance Clergy coaft confequence confiderable confifts courſe crops Cupar diſtrict ditto Doune Duke of Atholl Dunkeld Edinburgh eſtabliſhed expence extenfive faid fame farmers farms feems fent feveral fide Fife fince fiſh fituation fmall foil fome foon Forfar fouth ftate ftill ftones fuch fufficient fummer grafs ground Haddington heritors hiftory horfes horſes houfes houſe improvement increaſe inhabitants intereft Inverness iſland Kilmadock Kirkcudbright labour laft Lanark land laſt late meaſure Meigle merks miles minifter moft moſt muſt neceffary oats obfervations occafion Orkney parish perfons Perth population prefbytery prefent proprietors purpoſe raiſed reaſon refidence refpecting rent river ſchool Scots ſeems ſeveral ſhould Sir John Sinclair ſmall ſome ſtate Statiſtical Account Sterling ſtill ſuch Teith tenants thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thurfo tion town Urquhart uſeful weft
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Page lxxx - ... shall be enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain to be raised in [that part of the United Kingdom now called] England on land and other things usually charged in Acts of Parliament there for granting an aid to the crown by a land tax [that part of the United Kingdom...
Page 406 - Eight mighty kings of Scotland and a queen. Four times five years the Commonwealth I saw ; Ten times the subjects rose against the law.
Page iii - But in the course of a very extensive tour, through the northern parts of Europe, which I happened to take in 1786, I found that in Germany they were engaged in a species of political inquiry, to which they had given the name of Statistics...
Page 363 - Till thou have blefs'd their memory, and paid Thofe thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue, and if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy fons : inftrud them what a debt , They owe their anceftors ; and make them fwear To pay it, by tranfmitting down intire Thofe facred rights to which themfelves were born.
Page lxvi - Intended to fliew, that they have not as yet approached near the fummit of improvement, but that it will afford employment to many generations, before they pufh to their utmoft extent the natural advantages of Great- Britain.
Page 58 - In luxury and eafe, in pomp and pride, Think thefe loft themes, unworthy of your ear : Such themes as thefe the rural MA no fung To wide-imperial ROME, in the full height Of elegance and tafte, by GREECE refin'd.
Page 406 - Subjedts rofe againft the Law. Twice did I fee old Prelacy pull'd down; And twice the Cloak was humbled by the Gown. An End of Stuart's Race I faw: No more ! I faw my Country fold for Englifh Ore.
Page 406 - Seven mighty Kings of Scotland and a Queen. Full twice five years the Commonwealth I saw, Ten times the subjects rise against the law; And, which is worse than any civil war, A king arraigned before the subjects' bar; Swarms of sectarians, hot with hellish rage, Cut off his royal head upon the stage.
Page 356 - ... falling down upon his knees and holding up his hands, he prayed that God would forgive them, and begging mercy for his sins from his Saviour, they murdered him by sixteen great wounds in his back...
Page iii - ... whereas, the idea I annex to the term, is an inquiry into the state of a country, for the purpose of ascertaining the quantum of happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants, and the means of its future improvement...