The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, A. M.: The Keeper, for Almost Fifty Years, of the Library Belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh: to which are Subjoined New Anecdotes of Buchanan

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John Stockdale ... and William Laing, Edinburgh., 1794 - 467 strani
 

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Stran 449 - The History Of the Affairs of Church and State In Scotland, From the Beginning of the Reformation in the Reign of King James V. To The Retreat of Queen Mary into England, Anno 1568.
Stran 103 - A jealous government did not allow a printed newspaper : and the Venetian gazetta continued long after the invention of printing to the close of the sixteenth century, and even to our own days, to be distributed in manuscript.
Stran 456 - The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; or, a plain and easy Introduction to Latin Grammar: wherein the Principles of the Language are methodically Digested both in English and Latin. With Useful Notes and Observations, explaining the Terms of Grammar, and further Improving its Rules.
Stran 444 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Stran 443 - No! No! The Fair, the Gay, the Young, Govern the Numbers of my Song! All that they approve is sweet; And all is sense that they repeat! Bid the warbling Nine retire! VENUS ! string thy Servant's lyre ! Love shall be my endless theme! Pleasure shall triumph over Fame! And when these maxims I decline; APOLLO ! may thy fate be mine! May I grasp at empty praise...
Stran 455 - Ruddiman, Thomas. A dissertation concerning the competition for the crown of Scotland, betwixt Lord Robert Bruce and Lord John Baliol, in the year 1291 . . . With an appendix.
Stran 115 - Politicus was firft reprinted at Leith, on the 26th of October, 1653. The reprinting of it was transferred to Edinburgh, in November 1654; where it continued to be published, till the eleven'h of April 1660; and was then reprinted, -under the name of Mercurius Publicus.
Stran 46 - Scottifh dialect, unlefs by infinite and ungrateful labour. This elogium is the leaft I can beftow on the learning and accuracy of Mr Thomas Ruddiman. His modefty was ftill more remarkable than his learning ; for he fuffered his gloffary to go forth into the world without the name of its author.
Stran 415 - AB, or by reason of any matter, cause or thing whatsoever, from the beginning of the world to the day of the date hereof.
Stran 284 - Sncb was his conceit as a writer, that he regarded no one's merits but his own. Such were his disappointments, both, as a writer and a man, that he allowed his peevishness to sour into malice ; and indulged his malevolence till it settled in corruption.

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