"Aberdeen Journal" Notes and Queries, Volume 5"Aberdeen Daily Journal" Office, 1912 - Aberdeen (Scotland) |
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Aberdeen Journal Aberdeenshire Aboyne Alexander Alexander Irvine Anne April Arbroath August Banchory Banff Banffshire Bards of Angus became Bon-Accord born Brechin brother Buchan burgh Captain Castle century Charles David death December deen died Donald Duff Dundee Earl Edinburgh eldest daughter Elizabeth Farquharson father Forfar Forfarshire Formartine Fraser Fraserburgh Free Church George Glasgow Grant Highland House Huntly Irvine J. M. BULLOCH James Jane January John Forbes John Gordon John Milne July June Keith Kirriemuir Laird lands late Rev Leslie Lindsay LL.D London Lord Forbes Manse Manson Margaret Marischal College married Mary Mearns merchant minister Montrose native of Dundee November October Ogilvy Old Aberdeen parish Patrick Peterhead poems Poet published Queries Robert Sasine Scot Scotland Scottish second daughter September song spouse St Andrews St Moluag stone Street Tarland Thomas tion town verse wife William Forbes William Gordon Women of Forfarshire youngest daughter
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Page 137 - Instructions and such Orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me or any other your Superior Officers, for His Majesty's Service.
Page 73 - The Favilteach, or three first days of February, serve many poetical purposes in the Highlands. They are said to have been borrowed for some purpose by February from January, who was bribed by February with three young sheep. These three days, by Highland reckoning, occur between the llth and 15th of February; and it is accounted a most favorable prognostic for the ensuing year, that they should be as stormy as possible.
Page 253 - In winter, when the evening had set in, a party of the most fashionable people in town, collected by appointment, would adjourn in carriages to one of those abysses of darkness and comfort, called, in Edinburgh, laigh shops, where they proceeded to regale themselves with raw oysters and porter, arranged in huge dishes upon a coarse table, in a dingy room, lighted by tallow candles. The rudeness of the feast, and the vulgarity of the...
Page 243 - O, broken minster looking forth Beyond the bay, above the town, O, winter of the kindly North, O, college of the scarlet gown, And shining sands beside the sea, And stretch of links beyond the sand, Once more I watch you, and to me It is as if I touched his hand ! And therefore art thou yet more dear, O, little city, grey and sere, Though shrunken from thine ancient pride And lonely by thy lonely sea, Than these fair halls on Isis...
Page 195 - ... amiable qualities which secured the attachment of his friends, and the love of his own family. In testimony of feelings which no language can express, a disconsolate sister and five surviving brothers have erected this simple memorial to the object of their tenderest affection.
Page 76 - Three grim skulls of three Norse kings, Grinning a grin of despair, Each looking out from his stony cell— They stared with a stony stare. Did their spirits hear how the old church...
Page 238 - The History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection (1689-1748).
Page 77 - KT,' forming the seventh volume of the ' Bibliotheca Lindesiana,' and described on the title-page of the private edition as ' a bibliography of the writings, general, special, and periodical, forming the literature of philately.
Page 135 - ... lines a clear idea of so extensive a subject. But I may say generally that I have been long convinced that the progress of every people is regulated by principles — or, as they are called, Laws — as regular and as certain as those which govern the physical world. To discover those laws is the object of my work. With a view to this, I propose to take a general survey of the moral, intellectual, and legislative peculiarities of the great countries of Europe. . . . This is the general scheme...