A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, Količina 1;Količina 2671875 |
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... person , but for the extreme sweetness of his disposition . Being given to the gaieties of fashionable life , he had little relish for laborious employment ; so that , for some years after his admis- sion into the Faculty of Advocates ...
... person , but for the extreme sweetness of his disposition . Being given to the gaieties of fashionable life , he had little relish for laborious employment ; so that , for some years after his admis- sion into the Faculty of Advocates ...
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... person , who used to strut about the school dressed in a tartan night - cap and long tartan gown , got hold of the picture , and right soon de- tected that he himself was the most conspicuous and the most ridiculous figure . The satire ...
... person , who used to strut about the school dressed in a tartan night - cap and long tartan gown , got hold of the picture , and right soon de- tected that he himself was the most conspicuous and the most ridiculous figure . The satire ...
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... persons well known to the English who visited Rome between 1770 and 1780. There is one caricature by Allan , which is ... person , our Scottish Hogarth , as he was called , had nothing attractive . The misfortunes attending his entrance ...
... persons well known to the English who visited Rome between 1770 and 1780. There is one caricature by Allan , which is ... person , our Scottish Hogarth , as he was called , had nothing attractive . The misfortunes attending his entrance ...
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... person most proper for revising and publishing his valuable manuscripts . Anderson , however , did not confine himself to the duty of a mere editor ; he enriched the text with learned comments , and gave neat demon- strations of those ...
... person most proper for revising and publishing his valuable manuscripts . Anderson , however , did not confine himself to the duty of a mere editor ; he enriched the text with learned comments , and gave neat demon- strations of those ...
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... person or party ; having nothing to do with the national controversies of historians , nor with the ec- clesiastical and religious debates of theologians , nor with the politics of statesmen , nor with the private jangles of the critics ...
... person or party ; having nothing to do with the national controversies of historians , nor with the ec- clesiastical and religious debates of theologians , nor with the politics of statesmen , nor with the private jangles of the critics ...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: With a Supplemental Volume ... Robert Chambers,Thomas Thomson Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Količina 1 Robert Chambers Predogled ni na voljo - 1870 |
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Aberdeen admiration afterwards Alexander Andrews appeared appointed Argyle army Assembly Baillie Balfour Baliol Barclay became Bishop Boswell British brother Bruce Buchanan Burns Campbell Carstairs castle Chalmers character Christian church Church of Scotland command commenced court daughter death died distinguished divinity Duke duties Earl Edinburgh Edward eminent enemy England English father favour Ferrol firlot France French friends George Bannatyne Glasgow Highland honour James Joanna Baillie John John Baliol king King of Scotland labours learned lectures letter literary lived Lochiel London Lord manner Marischal College ment mind minister native never occasion parish parliament party period person Perth poems poet possessed preached presbytery principal profession published received returned Robert Calder royal Scotland Scots Scottish sent society soon success talents tion took university of Edinburgh university of Glasgow volume whole writing
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Stran 172 - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Stran 256 - To leave the bonnie banks of Ayr. Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales, Her heathy moors and winding vales ; The scenes where wretched fancy roves, Pursuing past, unhappy loves ! Farewell, my friends ! Farewell, my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those — The bursting tears my heart declare ; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr 1 THE FAREWELL.
Stran 254 - I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.
Stran 267 - Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince.'— ' No,' said Lochiel, 'I'll share the fate of my prince; and so shall every man over whom nature or fortune hath given me any power.
Stran 257 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of 'The Justice of the Peace'.
Stran 257 - His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I...
Stran 257 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew ; The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptized in tears.
Stran 254 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Stran 255 - The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Stran 260 - As to any remuneration, you may think my songs either above or below price ; for they shall absolutely be the one or the other. In the honest enthusiasm with which I embark in your undertaking, to talk of money, wages, fee, hire, etc. would be downright prostitution of soul ! A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend I shall receive as a favour.