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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... Town ; and , occupying the two ex- tremities of the latter , the two most remarkable monuments of Scottish history , the Castle and Holyrood House : the noble intervening street is rarely equalled in grandeur . This is not the place to ...
... Town ; and , occupying the two ex- tremities of the latter , the two most remarkable monuments of Scottish history , the Castle and Holyrood House : the noble intervening street is rarely equalled in grandeur . This is not the place to ...
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... Town , and the Modern Improvements , together with the noble works , which , in the form of bridges , connect the New and Old Town , and which yield as specimens . of elegant and substantial architecture , to no other erections of the ...
... Town , and the Modern Improvements , together with the noble works , which , in the form of bridges , connect the New and Old Town , and which yield as specimens . of elegant and substantial architecture , to no other erections of the ...
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... town thus arose round the baronial castle , and as new settlers came in , they seem rather to have raised their original houses in height , than to have extended them in number over the unoccupied grounds . Edinburgh has no resem ...
... town thus arose round the baronial castle , and as new settlers came in , they seem rather to have raised their original houses in height , than to have extended them in number over the unoccupied grounds . Edinburgh has no resem ...
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... town " Burgo meo de Edwins- burgh ; " and amongst other liberties granted to the Canons , empowered them to erect a borough between the Church of Holyrood and the town . Hence the foundation of that part of Edinburgh , now called the ...
... town " Burgo meo de Edwins- burgh ; " and amongst other liberties granted to the Canons , empowered them to erect a borough between the Church of Holyrood and the town . Hence the foundation of that part of Edinburgh , now called the ...
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... town , and the town - council was empow- ered to make bye - laws for the government thereof . The incorporated trades were at the same time presented with a flag , or banner , since called the Blue Blanket , ' and kept by the Convener ...
... town , and the town - council was empow- ered to make bye - laws for the government thereof . The incorporated trades were at the same time presented with a flag , or banner , since called the Blue Blanket , ' and kept by the Convener ...
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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...