The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and Botriphnie: Events, Places, and Persons |
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Abbot Abbot of Kinloss Aberdeen Achoynany aged Alex Alexander Alexr Altmore Balloch Banff Banffshire Birkenburn Birkie Stream Bishop of Moray Born Botarie Botriphnie Burn Cabrach Cairnie called Castle Chapel Church Churchyard Common compeired Congregation Craigdam daughter death deponed died Drummuir Duff Earl Earl of Fife Edinburgh Elgin erected Family father feet Ferguson Fife Fife-Keith Fochabers George Glengerrock Grange Grant ground heritors Hill House Huntly Isla James July Keith Keyth Kinloss Kirk Kirk Session Lachlan Ross Lady Laird lands Lord March married Mason memory miles Mill Milne Miltoun Minister Minr Moray Muldearie Newmill nixt Ogilvie Oliphant Ordained Order Parish Peter Broune Pitlurg Portsoy preached Presbytery Robert Ruthven Sabbath Scotland Scots Session shew side Species Species II Stamens Stewart Stone Strathisla Stuart Tarnash Thomas tion Town wall Water wife William Wood young
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Page 343 - I was sent for by other ladies in the country, and began to think myself growing very rich by the money I got for such drawings ; out of which I had the pleasure of occasionally supplying the wants of my poor father.
Page 142 - Arms, the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life ; her Industry, his surest wealth ; her Economy, his safest steward : her Lips, his faithful counsellors ; her Bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her Prayers, the ablest advocate of Heaven's blessing on his head.
Page 227 - I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation...
Page 342 - ... to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Page 349 - ... lectures on the eclipse of the sun that fell on the 14th of July in that year. Afterwards I began to read astronomical lectures on an orrery which I made, and of which the figures of all the wheelwork are contained in the 6th and 7th plates of
Page 347 - ... motions of the earth and moon in it, and would gladly have seen the wheelwork, which was concealed in a brass box, and the box and planets above it were surrounded by an armillary sphere. But he told me that he never had opened it ; and I could easily perceive that it could not be opened but by the hand of some ingenious clockmaker, and not without a great deal of time and trouble. After a good deal of thinking and calculation, I found that I could contrive the wheelwork for turning the planets...
Page 344 - Baird's, to Mr John Alexander, a painter in Edinburgh, who allowed me to pass an hour every day at his house, for a month, to copy from his drawings, and said he would teach me to paint in oil-colours if I would serve him seven years, and my friends would maintain me all that time ; but this was too much for me to desire them to do, nor did I choose to serve so long.
Page 452 - My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Page 343 - Two large globular stones stood on the top of his gate ; on one of them I painted with oil colours a map of the terrestrial globe, and on the other a map of the celestial...
Page 342 - I could not make the wheel go, when the balance was put on ; because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak, to bear the force of a spring sufficient to move the balance ; although the wheels would run fast enough, when the balance was taken off. I enclosed the whole in a wooden case, very little bigger than a breakfast tea-cup...