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... Edinburgh , and there burnt in ane fire to the dead as ane traitor . " This sentence was rigorously carried out , and the unfortunate lady died with the bravery of a true Douglas . The Reformation , which took place in the reign of ...
... Edinburgh , and there burnt in ane fire to the dead as ane traitor . " This sentence was rigorously carried out , and the unfortunate lady died with the bravery of a true Douglas . The Reformation , which took place in the reign of ...
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... Edinburgh , and now in possession of the Incorporation of Maltmen . The following passage , however , has been transcribed from the minute - book itself , the only change being in the writing of contracted words in full : - " Dundie ...
... Edinburgh , and now in possession of the Incorporation of Maltmen . The following passage , however , has been transcribed from the minute - book itself , the only change being in the writing of contracted words in full : - " Dundie ...
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... Edinburgh and Glasgow being the chief centres of the plague . Dundee escaped for some time from this severe visitation . At length , on Friday , 27th April , 1832 , two persons were seized with cholera , and were taken to the Craig ...
... Edinburgh and Glasgow being the chief centres of the plague . Dundee escaped for some time from this severe visitation . At length , on Friday , 27th April , 1832 , two persons were seized with cholera , and were taken to the Craig ...
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... Edinburgh were still fresh ; and the sacrilegious deeds of the Resurrectionists led many innocent men to be regarded with suspicion . Burke was executed in 1829 , and it was thought that there were secret compacts with sextons in many ...
... Edinburgh were still fresh ; and the sacrilegious deeds of the Resurrectionists led many innocent men to be regarded with suspicion . Burke was executed in 1829 , and it was thought that there were secret compacts with sextons in many ...
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... Edinburgh . Henry Cockburn , the Solicitor - General , conducted the prosecution ; and the Judges were the Lord Justice Clerk ( David Boyle ) , Lord Gillies , Lord Medwyn , and Lord Meadowbank . The three men - Kettle , Jolly , and ...
... Edinburgh . Henry Cockburn , the Solicitor - General , conducted the prosecution ; and the Judges were the Lord Justice Clerk ( David Boyle ) , Lord Gillies , Lord Medwyn , and Lord Meadowbank . The three men - Kettle , Jolly , and ...
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accused afterwards arsenic Arthur Wood asked Bailie Balfour became Bellman boat body bridge Bristed brother brought Broughty Ferry building burgh Bury called century cholera Church Claypotts Claypotts Castle Court crime crowd daughter declared Dempster Denside died door Drew Wood Drummond Castle Dudhope Castle Dundee Advertiser Dundonians Edinburgh erected evidence execution Fanny Wright father Ferry fire Forfarshire Friday George George Spalding Glasgow Grace Darling Greenmarket Grissel Jaffray guilty hangman High Street Howff James Jean Norrie Jenkins John Morgan John Peirson John Strachan jury King Lamb London Lord M'Cormick Magistrates mansion Margaret Warden Monday morning murder Murraygate night o'clock Overgate person Perth pinnaces Police present prisoner Provost rats Reform returned scene Scobbie Scotland Scottish Seagate sentence Smith Spalding story taken Tolbooth took place Town Council Town Drummer Town House Trades Lane trial visited Dundee Warden's death wife William witnesses Wood
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Página 236 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done; There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!
Página 56 - Refined in her manner and language, she was a radical alike in politics, morals, and religion. She had a strong, logical mind, a courageous independence of thought, and a zealous wish to benefit her fellowcreatures ; but the mind had not been submitted to early discipline, the courage was not tempered with prudence, the philanthropy had little of commonsense to give it practical form and efficiency.
Página 58 - In the educational department we had considerable talent, mixed with a good deal of eccentricity. We had a Frenchman, patronized by Mr Maclure, a M. Phiquepal d'Arusmont, who became afterwards the husband of Frances Wright ; a man well informed on many points, full of original ideas, some of practical value, but, withal, a wrong-headed genius, whose extravagance and wilfulness and inordinate self-conceit destroyed his usefulness.
Página 106 - ... St. Crispin was a shoemaker, and consequently was chosen by the craft as their Patron Saint. The Rev. Alban Butler, in his " Lives of the Saints," says, " St. Crispin, and St. Crispinian, two glorious martyrs, came from Rome to preach at Soissons, in France, towards the middle of the third century, and, in imitation of St. Paul, worked with their hands in the night, making shoes, though they were said to be nobly born, and brothers.
Página 157 - Lybellandum, Within ane moneth, I gat ad Opponendum In half ane yeir I gat Interloquendum, And syne, I gat, how call ye it? ad Replicandum. Bot, I could never ane word yit understand him ; And than...
Página 57 - The victims of this odious experiment on human credulity and nervous weakness were invariably women. Helpless age was made a public spectacle, youth driven to raving insanity, mothers and daughters carried lifeless from the presence of the ghostly expounders of damnation...
Página 157 - The Feind ane plack was left for to defend him. Thus thay postponit me twa yeir with thair traine Syne, Hodie ad octo, bad me cum againe; And than, thir ruiks, thay roupit wonder fast, For sentence silver thay cryit at the last.
Página 57 - I8/3-] were independent in their circumstances, and were devotedly attached to each other. She had various personal advantages, — a tall, commanding figure, somewhat slender and graceful, though the shoulders were a little bit too high ; a face the outline of which in profile, though delicately chiselled, was masculine rather than feminine, like that of an Antinous, or perhaps more nearly typifying a Mercury ; the forehead broad, but not high ; the short, chestnut hair curling naturally all over...
Página 106 - The emperor, perhaps as much to gratify their accusers as to indulge his own superstition and give way to his savage cruelty, gave order that they should be convened before Rictius Varus, the most implacable enemy of the Christian name, whom he had first made governor of that part of Gaul, and had then advanced to the dignity of prefect of the prffitorium.
Página 11 - flying terms" with bands of gold, All these hath Oxford: all are dear, But dearer far the little town, The drifting surf, the wintry year, The college of the scarlet gown, St. Andrews by the Northern sea, That is a haunted town to me!