Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh: Their History and Annals

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Edmonston and Douglas, 1876 - 575
 

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Strona 358 - To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers, Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee He did not spare, A stain to human sense in sin that lowers.
Strona 148 - Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever.
Strona 3 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Strona 121 - BUT, to outweigh all harm, the sacred Book, In dusty sequestration wrapt too long, Assumes the accents of our native tongue; And he who guides the plough, or wields the crook, "With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records, listen to her song, And sift her laws — much wondering that the wrong, Which Faith has suffered, Heaven could calmly brook.
Strona 123 - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
Strona 283 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Strona 21 - Gauls,* and burn me thereon on one side of the King of the Huns, and on the other those men of mine, two at the head and two at the feet, and two hawks withal ; and even so is all shared equally ; and lay there betwixt us a drawn sword, as in the other days when we twain stepped into one bed together ; and then may we have the name of man and wife, nor shall the door swing to at the heel of him as I go behind him.
Strona 22 - After the burning of the body had been completed, Beowulf's people proceeded to raise— a mound over the sea ; it was high and broad, by the sailors over the waves to be seen afar. And they built up during ten days the beacon of the war-renowned. They surrounded it with a wall in the most honourable manner that wise men could desire.
Strona 72 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Strona 91 - Fredome mayss man to haiff liking ; Fredome all solace to man giffis : He levys at ess that frely levys...

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