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... hill , about two miles and a half from Drachlaw . This stone had also been part of a Druidical circle , and is now nearly all that remains of it ; it projects above ground about three feet . From the Hare - stone of Feith - hill , the ...
... hill , about two miles and a half from Drachlaw . This stone had also been part of a Druidical circle , and is now nearly all that remains of it ; it projects above ground about three feet . From the Hare - stone of Feith - hill , the ...
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... hill of Monduff , which indicates not only the limit of the district , but also that of the parishes of Forgue and Inverkeithny , the shires of Banff and Aberdeen , and the estates of Cluny , Gariochsford , and Drumblair , which all ...
... hill of Monduff , which indicates not only the limit of the district , but also that of the parishes of Forgue and Inverkeithny , the shires of Banff and Aberdeen , and the estates of Cluny , Gariochsford , and Drumblair , which all ...
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... hill north of the church of Deer about six miles - there was erected a very high stone , vulgarly Scotch miles are here meant , one of which is equal to about a statute mile and a half . known by the Hunt - stone of Mormount ; to ...
... hill north of the church of Deer about six miles - there was erected a very high stone , vulgarly Scotch miles are here meant , one of which is equal to about a statute mile and a half . known by the Hunt - stone of Mormount ; to ...
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... hill near the house of Pitfour , was another high stone , perpendicularly set up : and south of the second , a third stone , at Denns or Meikle Creichie , in view of the second : two miles distant , and south of the third , a fourth ...
... hill near the house of Pitfour , was another high stone , perpendicularly set up : and south of the second , a third stone , at Denns or Meikle Creichie , in view of the second : two miles distant , and south of the third , a fourth ...
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... hill within some six miles of Fraserburgh . That land which lyeth along the sea - coast is generally a clay soil ; the rest , for the most part , is moss and moor , and full of bogis and marishes . " A much more modern , but hardly less ...
... hill within some six miles of Fraserburgh . That land which lyeth along the sea - coast is generally a clay soil ; the rest , for the most part , is moss and moor , and full of bogis and marishes . " A much more modern , but hardly less ...
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Page 421 - wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud; Banners on high, and battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 211 - Our life is but a winter day. Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay, and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes tbe soonest has the least to pay.
Page 415 - Flowers, fresh in hue, and many in their class, Implore the pausing step, and with their dyes, Dance in the soft breeze in a fairy mass; The sweetness of the violet's deep-blue eyes, Kiss'd by the breath of heaven, seems colour'd by its skies.
Page 63 - Rock, is a double protuberance of stone, open to the main sea on one side, and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other. It has its name and its colour from the dung of innumerable sea-fowls, which, in the spring, choose this place as convenient for incubation.
Page 53 - inches, and his proportions most exact. His countenance and deportment exhibited such a mixture of the sublime and the graceful as I have never seen united in any other man. He often put me in mind of an ancient hero; and I remember Dr. Samuel Johnson was positive that he resembled Homer's character of Sarpedon.
Page 57 - aik, And the aik stands fast, The Hays shall flourish, and their good grey hawk Shall nocht flinch before the blast, But when the root of the aik decays, And the mistletoe dwines on its withered breast, The grass shall grow on Errol's hearth-stane, And the corbie roup [croak] in the falcon's nest.
Page 421 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless save to the cranny ing wind, Or holding dark communion with the
Page 73 - Micah vi., 8—" He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?
Page 148 - Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks with stricter heed, More safely rests, dies happier, is freed Earlier from cleansing fires, and gains withal A brighter crown.
Page 249 - When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, "A poor prize had they obtained it—an old, dying man ! " That the friends who lived in the house—the hourly witnesses of his virtues, and the objects of his regard, who saw him escape all the dangers that surrounded