 | Thomas Pennant - 1772 - 390 pages
...a great and precipitous height at the upper extremity, and the fides declining very quick and fteep into the plain. The view of the houfes at a diftance ftrikes the traveller with wonder ; their own lofiinefs, improved by their almoft aerial fituation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 508 pages
...gives them a look of magnificence not to be * Known throughout the Highlands by the name EDINBURGH *. found in any other part of Great Britain. All thefe...generally fix or feven ftories high in front ; but, by reaibn of the declivity of the hill, much higher backward ; one in particular, called Babel, had about... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 498 pages
...a great and precipitous height at the upper extremity, and the fides declining very quick and fteep into the plain. The view of the houfes at a diftance...fituation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be • Known throughout the Highland] by the name of Dun-idin. EDINBURGH *' found in any other part of... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 1102 pages
...a great and precipitous height at the upper extremity, and the fides declining very qoick and fteep into the plain. The view of the houfes at a diftance...buildings form the upper part of the great ftreet, are of ftonej and make a handforae appearance : they are generally fix or feven flories high in front ; but... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1815 - 312 pages
...distance strikes the traveller with wonder; their own loftiness improved by their almost aerial situation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain. Pennant's Scotland, vol. i. 63 supper, and mentioned several things himself; among the rest, a duke,... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1822 - 568 pages
...strikes the traveller with wonder ; their own loftiness improved by their almost aeriaf situation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain. — Pennant's Scotland, vol. i. 63. t Had it been for dinner, he would probably have recommended also... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1822 - 436 pages
...distance strikes the traveller with wonder; their own loftiness improved by their almost aerial situation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain.—Pennant's Scotland, vol. i. 63. f Had it been for dinner, he would probably have recommended... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pages
...Pennant, " they strike with wonder ; their own loftiness, improvec: by their almost aerial situation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain." Captain Burt, though not addicted to flatter ; and in truth a very " pock-pudding" stuffed full of... | |
 | Book - 1851 - 274 pages
...of the houses in Edinburgh at a distance is very striking ; their loftiness gives them an appearance of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain. They are generally six or seven stories high in the front, and, from the declivity of the hill, much... | |
 | John S. Gibson - 1993 - 172 pages
...the whole that makes the scene; this is the city in which Mr Pennant, the English traveller, has seen a look of magnificence 'not to be found in any other part of Great Britain'. And in the daytime from Mr Creech's windows the view over the roof tops of the Canongate leads the... | |
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The view of the houses at a distance strikes the traveller with wonder; their own loftiness, improved by their almost aerial situation, gives them a look of magnificence not to be found in any other part of Great Britain. 
