A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Volume 2, Part 2H. Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1838 |
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Page 384 - Lordships, and I am sure will always continue to have while I sit here ; but that case was determined by a very small majority, and I have heard your Lordships mention it on various occasions, and you have always desiderated the propriety of jt, and I think have departed from it in some instances.
Page 435 - It is related that when walking down High Street one day from the court of session he overheard a young lady saying to her companion rather loudly, 'There goes Johnnie Clerk, the lame lawyer.
Page 398 - In a former number we noticed the intended marriage between Bailie Creech of Edinburgh, and the beautiful Miss Burns of the same place. We have now the authority of that gentleman to say that the proposed marriage is not to take place, matters having been otherwise arranged to the mutual satisfaction of both parties and their respective friends ! ' ' — See Kay's celebrated portrait, page 86, Vol.
Page 398 - The Bailie was exceedingly wroth, and only abandoned his threatened action against the editor on the promise of a counter-statement being given in next publication.
Page 339 - Edinburgh before dinner, it is not unusal for them to perform their journey of five miles by relays, three of them being employed in carrying one basket, and shifting it from one to another every hundred yards, by which means they have been known to arrive at the fishmarket in less than three quarters of an hour.
Page 400 - Jesus : that ye put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Page 436 - ... features are in themselves good; — at least a painter would call them so ; and the upper part of the profile has as fine lines as could be wished. But then, how the habits of the mind have stamped their traces on every part of the face ! What sharpness, what razor-like sharpness, has indented itself about the wrinkles of his eye-lids ; the eyes themselves so quick, so gray, such bafflers of scrutiny...
Page 331 - ... than his own, or officiating in any meeting for religious exercises, without the special invitation of the minister within whose parish it shall be held, and by whom such meetings shall be called, is disorderly, and unbecoming the character of a minister of this church, and calculated to weaken the hands of the minister of the parish, and to injure the interests of sound religion; and the Assembly enjoin presbyteries to take order that no countenance be given by ministers within their bounds...
Page 321 - Hermes Scythicus ; or the radical Affinities of the Greek and Latin Languages to the Gothic; illustrated from the McesoGothic, Anglo-Saxon, Francic, Almanic, Sueo-Gothic, Islandic, &c.
Page 344 - I am pleased to think it is my fate rather than yours, whose life is involved in that of your young wife.