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... Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston . ( Poem to Mr. Law by Allan Ramsay , Edin . 1720 , fol . ) With MS . Note by Sir W. S. 4to . Clerk ( Baron ) Dissertatio de Monumentis quibusdam Romanis in Boreali Mag . detectis ...
... Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston . ( Poem to Mr. Law by Allan Ramsay , Edin . 1720 , fol . ) With MS . Note by Sir W. S. 4to . Clerk ( Baron ) Dissertatio de Monumentis quibusdam Romanis in Boreali Mag . detectis ...
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... Sketch of Col. Patrick Ferguson . 8vo . Skinner's ( Rev. John ) Annals of Scottish Episcopacy from 1788 to 1816 , & c . 8vo . ib . 1818 Jamieson's ( Rev. Dr. John ) Hist . Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona , & c . 4to . ib . 1811 ...
... Sketch of Col. Patrick Ferguson . 8vo . Skinner's ( Rev. John ) Annals of Scottish Episcopacy from 1788 to 1816 , & c . 8vo . ib . 1818 Jamieson's ( Rev. Dr. John ) Hist . Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona , & c . 4to . ib . 1811 ...
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... Sketch of the name of Scott . 4. Genealogy of the Sainteclaires . ( By Father Hay ? ) See POETICAL WORKS , vol . vi . Notes 3 R and 3 U. | 5. Declaration of James III . & c . 1722 . 6. Letters between Pope and the two Tonsons . 7 ...
... Sketch of the name of Scott . 4. Genealogy of the Sainteclaires . ( By Father Hay ? ) See POETICAL WORKS , vol . vi . Notes 3 R and 3 U. | 5. Declaration of James III . & c . 1722 . 6. Letters between Pope and the two Tonsons . 7 ...
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... Sketches of Perthshire , illustrative of the Lady of the Lake . 2d edit . 8vo . ib . 1812 See POETICAL WORKS , vol ... Sketch of former Manners , & c . 12mo . Clan Alpin's Vow , a Fragment . 8vo . ib . 1810 ib . 1811 See PROSE WORKS ...
... Sketches of Perthshire , illustrative of the Lady of the Lake . 2d edit . 8vo . ib . 1812 See POETICAL WORKS , vol ... Sketch of former Manners , & c . 12mo . Clan Alpin's Vow , a Fragment . 8vo . ib . 1810 ib . 1811 See PROSE WORKS ...
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... Sketch of , Edin . 1811 . memoration of Carolan , the Irish Harper , Dub . 1809. Rules and Harp Society , Dub . 1810. 8vo . Stair , ( John Earl of ) Memoirs Syllabus of first Com- Regulations of Irish of the Life , & c . of , by an ...
... Sketch of , Edin . 1811 . memoration of Carolan , the Irish Harper , Dub . 1809. Rules and Harp Society , Dub . 1810. 8vo . Stair , ( John Earl of ) Memoirs Syllabus of first Com- Regulations of Irish of the Life , & c . of , by an ...
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Page 159 - WIT AND MIRTH ; or, PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY. Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument ; most of the Songs being new set.
Page 154 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Page 149 - LETTERS WRITTEN BY EMINENT PERSONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES : To which are added, HEARNE'S JOURNEYS TO READING, AND TO WHADDON HALL, The Seat of BROWNE WILLIS, ESQ., and LIVES OF EMINENT MEN, by JOHN AUBREY, ESQ.
Page 264 - Words, and Vocabularies of Latin and English Words, with their Translation into Gaelic, to which is prefixed a Compendium of Gaelic Grammar. Compiled and published under the Direction of the Highland Society of Scotland. 2 vols.
Page 270 - The Old and New Testament connected, in the History of the Jews and neighbouring Nations, from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ.
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Page 148 - Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr.
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