The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, Band 1T. and A. Constable, 1908 Volumes 1-19, 31 include Reports of the 1st-25th, 51th-54th annual meetings. |
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Seite 97 - He was afterwards a Senator of the College of Justice, under the title of Lord Kemnay.
Seite 25 - Let them bestow on every airth* a limb, Then open all my veins, — that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake — Then place my parboiled head upon a stake ; Scatter my ashes— strew them in the air; — Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
Seite 25 - Let them bestow on every airth a limb ; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To Thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake ; Then place my parboil'd head upon a stake ; Scatter my ashes ; strew them in the air : — Lord ! since Thou know'st where all those atoms are, I'm hopeful Thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident Thou'lt raise me with the Just.
Seite 19 - ... Club be dissolved, the Council shall discharge all debts due by the Club, and shall then deposit in trust, with some recognised public institution or corporate body, any residue of funds or other properties, including all literary, artistic, and other material collected by the Club, for preservation, in order that the same may be available to students of local history in all time coming. XII. Notice of any proposed alteration on this Constitution must be given in writing to the Secretary, to...
Seite 106 - Nisbet occupancy, unless it be the weatherworn shield over the old moulded entrance door—it is no longer decipherable. To the period of the close of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century should also probably be assigned two inscriptions, in black-letter, painted above the chimney-piece on the wall of a chamber, now a bedroom, in the second story of the earliest part of the house, to which access is had through the old doorway and up a spiral stone stair. They were revealed on taking...
Seite 83 - ... after one, is performed in the same manner as in the morning, save the chapters then read out of the New Testament, and they conclude about four hour. I was in the morning at the Gray Friors, where I heard a very worthy man, Mr. James Sherley : in the wall of the yard of this church, I observed very fair tombs and monuments, erected in memory and honour of divers merchants and others...
Seite 75 - Dean is the only family of the name in Scotland that has right, by consent, to represent the old original family of the name of Nisbet ; since the only lineal male representer, the author of this System, is like to go soon off the world, being an old man, and without issue, male or female.
Seite 99 - The very hills and groves, accustomed before to be refreshed with the dew of your majesty's presence, not putting on their wonted apparel, but with pale looks representing their misery for the departure of their...
Seite 5 - That it may be safely affirmed that since 1860 two-thirds of the ancient buildings in the Old Town of Edinburgh have been demolished.
Seite 45 - The | Laurel Disputed ; | Or, The | Merits Of Allan Ramsay | And | Robert Ferguson Contrasted ; | In Two Poetical Essays, | Delivered in the Pantheon at Edinburgh, on Thursday April 14th 1791, | On the Question, | ' Whether have 1 Brash and Reid's Poetry ; Original and Stlected, vol.