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, 1829 |
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... situated in South Bridge Street ; 3. Skinners , the hall of whose corpora- tion is in Skinners Close ; 4. Furriers ; 5. Hammermen ; 6 and 7. Wrights and Masons , whose hall of meeting is called St. Marys chapel , and is situated in ...
... situated in South Bridge Street ; 3. Skinners , the hall of whose corpora- tion is in Skinners Close ; 4. Furriers ; 5. Hammermen ; 6 and 7. Wrights and Masons , whose hall of meeting is called St. Marys chapel , and is situated in ...
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... situated the British Linen Bank . On the west side of Charlotte Square , is St. George's Church , forming the terminating object of George - street . Parallel to this street , are Queen - street , Princes- street , and York Place ; at ...
... situated the British Linen Bank . On the west side of Charlotte Square , is St. George's Church , forming the terminating object of George - street . Parallel to this street , are Queen - street , Princes- street , and York Place ; at ...
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... situated for the purposes of commerce than themselves , ) passed an act , forbidding any tradesman of the former town to enter into partnership with an inhabitant of Leith , under a penalty of 40s . Scots , and the loss of freedom , for ...
... situated for the purposes of commerce than themselves , ) passed an act , forbidding any tradesman of the former town to enter into partnership with an inhabitant of Leith , under a penalty of 40s . Scots , and the loss of freedom , for ...
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... situated on the Calton Hill , a cenotaph column , or tower , to Lord Nelson , and another building , called the " National Monument , " commemorative of the visit of his present Majesty to the northern Metropolis in 1822 . EDINBURGH ...
... situated on the Calton Hill , a cenotaph column , or tower , to Lord Nelson , and another building , called the " National Monument , " commemorative of the visit of his present Majesty to the northern Metropolis in 1822 . EDINBURGH ...
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... Situated in such a respectable street , and in connexion , as it is , with several handsome public buildings , this theatre makes a very poor and mean appearance externally , although the interior is fitted up with some degree of ...
... Situated in such a respectable street , and in connexion , as it is , with several handsome public buildings , this theatre makes a very poor and mean appearance externally , although the interior is fitted up with some degree of ...
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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...