A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volume 3

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Blackie and Son, 1870 - Scotland
 

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Page 228 - chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: 'The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree—he has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.' Chorus—' Let us pity the white man; no mother has he!
Page 227 - long-sought-for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and having drunk of the water lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
Page 186 - Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honoured, in the House of Lords— Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, More silent far, where kings and poets lie ; Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde.
Page 172 - which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice. Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them everything.
Page 328 - people, who, living in a civilized age and country, retained so strong a tincture of manners belonging to an early period of society, must afford a subject favourable for romance, if it should not prove a curious tale marred in the telling. " It was with some idea of this kind that, about the year
Page 264 - led the life of an elegant accomplished man of the world, and public favourite." He was frequently of Dr. Johnson's parties, who said of him, "You will not find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, and elegance, than in Ramsay's.
Page 132 - of Hunsden drew me up to a quiet gallery, that I might hear some music; but he said he durst not avow it, where I might hear the queen play upon the virginals. But after I had hearkened awhile, I took by the tapestry that hung before the door of the chamber, and seeing her back was towards
Page 13 - A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World, illustrated with Maps;
Page 228 - with songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I was myself the subject of it; it was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: 'The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our
Page 226 - by the most extravagant demonstrations of joy and triumph, and Park was convinced that, "whatever difference there is between the negro and European in the conformation of the nose and the colour of the skin, there is none in the genuine sympathies and characteristic feelings of our common nature.

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