Chronicles of saint Mungo: or, Antiquities and traditions of GlasgowJohn Smith & Son, 1843 - 434 Seiten |
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... Andrews into an Arch- bishopric , in 1466 . The first incontrovertible account , however , of the revival of the See , is to be found under the reign of Alexander the First , when David , subsequently king , but at that time Prince of ...
... Andrews into an Arch- bishopric , in 1466 . The first incontrovertible account , however , of the revival of the See , is to be found under the reign of Alexander the First , when David , subsequently king , but at that time Prince of ...
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... Andrews forty years pre- viously , we may regard as the first decided struggles of the human mind in northern Britain to wrest itself from the trammels of barbarism . It is impossible even to take a cursory retrospect of the events ...
... Andrews forty years pre- viously , we may regard as the first decided struggles of the human mind in northern Britain to wrest itself from the trammels of barbarism . It is impossible even to take a cursory retrospect of the events ...
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... Andrew's - Street , ) Armour's Wynd , Main's Wynd , ( now Back Wynd , ) New Wynd , Old Wynd , Aird's Wynd , ( Goosedubs , ) Moody's Wynd , St. Enoch's Wynd . CITY PORTS . In the ruder ages , before the uncouth nature of man gave place ...
... Andrew's - Street , ) Armour's Wynd , Main's Wynd , ( now Back Wynd , ) New Wynd , Old Wynd , Aird's Wynd , ( Goosedubs , ) Moody's Wynd , St. Enoch's Wynd . CITY PORTS . In the ruder ages , before the uncouth nature of man gave place ...
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... Andrew , Rector of Renfrew . Having remained in the possession of his family for two subsequent generations , it became the property of the Crawfords of Jordanhill . In 1736 it belonged to the Incorporation of Weavers . VICAR ALLEYS ...
... Andrew , Rector of Renfrew . Having remained in the possession of his family for two subsequent generations , it became the property of the Crawfords of Jordanhill . In 1736 it belonged to the Incorporation of Weavers . VICAR ALLEYS ...
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... , next to St. Andrews , the principal seat of ecclesi- astical learning in Scotland , and therefore a place well F suited to her religious disposition . After her settlement in CHAPTER IV THE LEPROSY AND PLAGUE IN GLASGOW,
... , next to St. Andrews , the principal seat of ecclesi- astical learning in Scotland , and therefore a place well F suited to her religious disposition . After her settlement in CHAPTER IV THE LEPROSY AND PLAGUE IN GLASGOW,
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afterwards ancient Andrew Andrew Foulis appeared appointed arms army arrived baillies bishop Bishop Cameron Bishop Elphinston Bishop of Glasgow Bridgegate building built burgh Campbell Captain Cathedral celebrated century church Church of Scotland citizens city of Glasgow civil Clyde College court covenanters divine Dumbarton Earl Edinburgh edition Elphinston eminent erected Finlay Glas Gorbals guard Hamilton High-Street honour Hospital inhabitants James John king known land leper leprosy letter Lord magistrates ment merchant minister Mungo native occasion parliament party period persons prebendary presbyterian present principal printed printer Professor Provost published rabble received rector Reformation river river Clyde Robert Foulis Rottenrow royal Royal Burgh Rutherglen Saltmarket Scotland Scottish sent side situated soon stones stood streets tion tolbooth took town trade Trongate tumult University of Glasgow William Wodrow Wynd
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Seite 49 - Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Seite 76 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Seite 39 - 11 superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, where an English florist may pick up a posie; so that should the residue of their cities, in our northern progress, seem as barren as uncultivated fields, and every field so replenished with thistles that a flower could scarcely flourish amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise, O Glasgow!
Seite 370 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 370 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 401 - ... before the bench, kept his eye fixed with calm earnestness on his Lordship's face, assenting now and then to the propriety of what he said, by exactly that sort of see-saw gesture which you may have seen escape now and then from the devout listener to a pathetic sermon or sacramental service. John, in a short speech of his own, expressed his sense of his guilt ; but even then he borrowed the language of Scripture, styling himself " a sinner, and the chief of sinners.
Seite 299 - That the complaints of the merchants of London, Liverpool, Whitehaven, &c. are groundless, and proceed from a spirit of envy, and not from a regard to the interests of trade, or to the King's revenue.
Seite 424 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Seite 110 - A priest robed with surplice and stole went with the cross to the house of the doomed leper. The minister of the church began the necessary ceremonies by exhorting him to suffer, with a patient and penitent spirit, the incurable plague with which God had stricken him. He then sprinkled the unfortunate leper with holy water, and afterwards conducted him to the church, the usual burial verses being sung during their march thither.
Seite 208 - Thereupon ensued a pitiful vastation of churches and church buildings throughout all parts of the realm ; for every one made bold to put to their hands, the meaner sort imitating the example of the greater and those who were in authority.