Family record of the name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire. With Appendix |
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Aberdeen Journal Aberdeenshire afterwards Anna Arthur Seat Baillie baptized Barbara Barbara Gordon Bentley Blachrie Blackwell born brother Brownhill Brucklay Cadenhead Chalmers Church of Scotland daughter of Alexander daughter of Dr daughter of James daughter of John daughter of William David death December died unmarried Dingwall Fordyce Dingwall of Rannieston Douglass Drysdale Dyce Dymock Edinburgh eldest daughter Elizabeth father February Fergus Forbes Fordyce Dingwall Fordyce his wife Fordyce of Culsh Forfarshire Fraser Gask George Fordyce Gordon his wife Harvey husband infeft Irvine Isobell Jane Janet Morison January Jean Jessy John Dingwall John Fordyce Katharine Kincardineshire Kinnettles latterly Lindsay Littlejohn London Lumsden Magdalen March Margaret Marischal College Mary merchant in Aberdeen minister mother Nethermuir Newmachar notice October Old Aberdeen Parish Provost Provost George Fordyce Provost of Aberdeen resided Robert Sarah Sauchen second daughter September Shirrefs sons South Australia survived Thomas Thomson Tilwhilly Turing Turriff William Dingwall Young
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Seite 89 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Seite 88 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Seite 196 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Seite 29 - It was a school for both sexes. I learned little there, except to repeat by rote the first lesson of monosyllables ([God made man' — 'Let us love him') by hearing it often repeated, without acquiring a letter. Whenever proof was made of my progress at home, I repeated these words with the most rapid fluency ; but on turning over a new leaf, I continued to repeat them, so that the narrow boundaries of my first year's accomplishments...
Seite 109 - Twas mighty love that tamed his breast ; 'Tis tender grief that breaks his rest; He droops his wings, he hangs his head Since she he fondly loved is dead. With Delia's breath my joy expired ; 'Twas Delia's smiles my fancy fired. Like that poor bird I pine, and prove Nought can supply the place of love. Dark as his feathers was the fate That robbed him of his darling mate; Dimmed is the lustre of his eye, That wont to gaze the sun-bright sky. To him is now for ever lost The heartfelt bliss he once...
Seite 204 - Highlandmen, was violently forced down to the cross, and there, with some broadswords over my head, was obliged to stand till their proclamation was read : and because I refused to drink a health they proposed, I had a glass of wine spilt down my breast; which was, 1 acknowledge, making me suffer in a way next to taking my life, that non could have affected me more.
Seite 95 - London, he enabled that individual to enter upon an unusually extensive series of transactions, which, though sound in themselves, exposed him to a malevolent combination of his brethren in trade, and hence the great bankruptcy of Fordyce & Co., which may be termed one of the most important domestic events in Britain during the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Seite 179 - She is of a solid understanding in religion for her sex, and of prudence much more than ordinary, and of great integrity and constancy in her religion, and a great hater of hypocrisy, and faithful to Christ in an unfaithful world...
Seite lvii - You are my witnesses in the presence of God, that the Lord is nigh." A little after, he said, " The perfect discovery of ' the Day-spring from on high' — how great a blessing it hath been to me and...
Seite 261 - I went up, and took no other notice of the good man's ill-timed zeal than to observe, in some part of my discourse, that if the good old gentleman had seen some of my later writings, wherein I had corrected several of my former mistakes, he would not have expressed himself in such strong terms. The people being thus diverted from controversy with man were deeply impressed with...