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... OF A COUNTRY MINISTER IN HIS OWN COUNTRY . SECOND SERIES . A BIBL BY THE REV . JOHN H. THOMSON EAGLESHAM . MOTHE EDINBURGH : JOHNSTONE , HUNTER , & CO . 110. k . 577 * PREFACE . T HIS volume contains an account of visits 1877 .
... OF A COUNTRY MINISTER IN HIS OWN COUNTRY . SECOND SERIES . A BIBL BY THE REV . JOHN H. THOMSON EAGLESHAM . MOTHE EDINBURGH : JOHNSTONE , HUNTER , & CO . 110. k . 577 * PREFACE . T HIS volume contains an account of visits 1877 .
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... EDINBURGH , PARISH CHURCH , LEUCHARS , · MARTYRS ' MONUMENT , ST ANDREWS , DUNNOTTAR CASTLE , · • Frontispiece PAGE 5 37 · 63 65 · 95 • · 129 · 149 · 175 • 193 • 221 THE GRASSMARKET OF EDINBURGH , THE BASS ROCK ,. NETHERBOW PORT , THE ...
... EDINBURGH , PARISH CHURCH , LEUCHARS , · MARTYRS ' MONUMENT , ST ANDREWS , DUNNOTTAR CASTLE , · • Frontispiece PAGE 5 37 · 63 65 · 95 • · 129 · 149 · 175 • 193 • 221 THE GRASSMARKET OF EDINBURGH , THE BASS ROCK ,. NETHERBOW PORT , THE ...
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... Edinburgh . It is a clean , tidy , thriving - like place . The parish church is about a quarter of a mile from the railway station , at the north side of the town . The gate to the churchyard we found closed , but on walking round to ...
... Edinburgh . It is a clean , tidy , thriving - like place . The parish church is about a quarter of a mile from the railway station , at the north side of the town . The gate to the churchyard we found closed , but on walking round to ...
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... Edinburgh in such a way as to justify the words of the inscription , " And also one of the Hands of DAVID HACKSTON of Rathillet who was most cruelly murdered at EDINR . " The original order for his execution is in the Anti- quarian ...
... Edinburgh in such a way as to justify the words of the inscription , " And also one of the Hands of DAVID HACKSTON of Rathillet who was most cruelly murdered at EDINR . " The original order for his execution is in the Anti- quarian ...
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John Henderson Thomson. EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH . execution against him this thirtieth day of July instant betwixt. 5.
John Henderson Thomson. EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH . execution against him this thirtieth day of July instant betwixt. 5.
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Page 33 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree : his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 106 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 200 - I know in whom I have believed, and that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 127 - Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people : for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Page 274 - But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Page 26 - God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 218 - O cruel woman, how can you name his name to me ? the first news I expect to hear of him is, that he is hanged for a thief.
Page 239 - Knox and Welch !" exclaimed he, " the devil never made such a match as that." — " It's right like, sir," said she, "for we never speired* his advice." He asked her how many children her father had left, and if they were lads or lasses. She said three, and they were all lasses,