Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century: Exhibiting the Whole of the New Buildings, Modern Improvements, Antiquities, and Picturesque Scenery, of the Scottish Metropolis and Its Environs,Jones & Company Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square., 1829 - 86 ページ |
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... residence from Scone , that it assumed the name and character of a capital . * The charter of Robert Bruce in 1329 , which recognises the ancient privileges of the inhabitants , and confers upon them the town of Leith , with its ...
... residence from Scone , that it assumed the name and character of a capital . * The charter of Robert Bruce in 1329 , which recognises the ancient privileges of the inhabitants , and confers upon them the town of Leith , with its ...
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... residence and property of the Duke of Hamilton . An Abbey was founded on this site by David the Ist , in 1128 , which , in the 16th century , became a royal palace . The precincts of this demesne , embracing a circuit of three miles ...
... residence and property of the Duke of Hamilton . An Abbey was founded on this site by David the Ist , in 1128 , which , in the 16th century , became a royal palace . The precincts of this demesne , embracing a circuit of three miles ...
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... residences and hotels of the nobility of Scotland , and formed , in fact , the Court - end of the City . The Canon - gate comprehends within its limits most of the eastern part of old Edinburgh , and had formerly a separate jurisdiction ...
... residences and hotels of the nobility of Scotland , and formed , in fact , the Court - end of the City . The Canon - gate comprehends within its limits most of the eastern part of old Edinburgh , and had formerly a separate jurisdiction ...
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... residence of the aristocracy of Scotland . In this he has in a great measure succeeded ; and had his designs for the Church , which is the chief ornament in this quadrangular mass of buildings , been adopted , few squares in this ...
... residence of the aristocracy of Scotland . In this he has in a great measure succeeded ; and had his designs for the Church , which is the chief ornament in this quadrangular mass of buildings , been adopted , few squares in this ...
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... residence of , Sir Lawrence Dundas , for many years the representa- tive of the City of Edinburgh in parliament , and grandfather of the present Lord of that name . It was sold to Government at the commencement of the last century ...
... residence of , Sir Lawrence Dundas , for many years the representa- tive of the City of Edinburgh in parliament , and grandfather of the present Lord of that name . It was sold to Government at the commencement of the last century ...
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Aberdeenshire adorned Alexander Alexander Irvine ancient antiquity apartments arches architecture Arthur's Seat banks Baron Baronet Bart beautiful Bridge building built Calton Hill Castle centre century Chapel Charles Church Court Dalguise daughter Dining-room Drawing-room Drawn by Tho Duke Earl Earl of Fife east edifice Edinburgh elegant eminence Engraved entrance erected feet in length Fingask Castle Finsbury Square formerly front gallery George ground H Shepherd Hall handsome height Holyrood House House James James VI Jones King Lady Leith Loch Loch Gilp lofty London Lord mansion married Mary Menzies miles Montrose noble occupied ornamented Palace Park parliament Pentland Hills Perthshire picturesque portraits present proprietor principal Queen residence river Robert rock rooms Ross Priory royal scenery Scotland Scottish SEAT side Sir John situated spacious staircase Stewart stone street style Temple tower walls Water of Leith William wood
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54 ページ - ... moments. The Earl of Morton, who was present at his funeral, pronounced his eulogium in a few words, the more honourable for Knox, as they came from one whom he had often censured with peculiar severity : " There lies he, who never feared the face of man.
69 ページ - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
54 ページ - Rigid and uncomplying himself, he showed no indulgence to the infirmities of others. Regardless of the distinctions of rank and character, he uttered his admonitions with an acrimony and vehemence, more apt to irritate than to reclaim.
54 ページ - Those very qualities, however, which now render his character less amiable, fitted him to be the instrument of Providence for advancing the Reformation among a fierce people...
53 ページ - Zeal, intrepidity, disinterestedness, were virtues which he possessed in an eminent degree. He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated among divines in that age ; and excelled in that species of eloquence which is calculated to rouse and to inflame.!!
39 ページ - Plummer, at the same time, were appointed Secretaries. A few years afterwards, the meetings of the Society were interrupted for a considerable space of time by the disorders of the country, in the rebellion of 1745 ; and no sooner was public tranquillity re-established, than it suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. Maclaurin, whose comprehensive genius, and ardour in the pursuits of science, peculiarly qualified him for conducting the business of such an Institution. The meetings of the society...
40 ページ - ... the two most eminent disciples of the Newtonian school which Britain produced in the whole of the eighteenth century, — namely, Colin Maclaurin and Matthew Stewart. The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh was the immediate parent of the Royal Society.} The Royal Society of Edinburgh took its rise in a meeting of the Professors of the University of Edinburgh, many of whom were also members of the Philosophical Society,§ on the proposition of Priniii. p. 477), that, in 1743, the Society advertised...
52 ページ - Yards, the extensive enclosure called the King's Park, the Duke's Walk, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craigs, and St. Leonard's Hill. HOUSE OF JOHN KNOX. This ancient building is in no respect to be admired on account of its architectural peculiarities, which, if they belong to any definable order or species, must be arranged with those which no person of taste or judgment can approve. A pulpit, in which is an effigy of the individual of whose fame this plain building has been made to participate, ornaments...