A View of the British Empire, More Especially Scotland: With Some Proposals for the Improvement of that Country, the Extension of Its Fisheries, and the Relief of the People. By John KnoxWalter, 1789 - 670 sider |
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Side 138 - The spirit of wine in the others was frozen. If we opened the door of a warm room, the external air instantly converted all the air in it into snow, whirling it round in white vortexes.
Side 157 - ... produce eggs; the former are rather the least fruitful, yet even these are seen to produce in great abundance. The viviparous blenny, for instance, brings forth two or three hundred at a tim'e, all alive, and playing round the parent together. .Those who exclude their progeny in a more imperfect state, and produce eggs which they are obliged to leave to chance, either on the bottom, at the edge of the water, or floating on the surface where it is deeper, are all much more prolific, and seem to...
Side xxiv - ... deliberate on the articles of the union, and the Scottish act of ratification, the tory party, which was very weak in that assembly, began to start some objections. Sir John Packington disapproved of this incorporating union, which he likened to •a marriage with a woman against her consent. He said it was an union carried on by corruption and bribery within doors, by force and violence without...
Side 57 - And if any man believe that this description of the ship be not of verity, as we have written, let him pass to the gate of Tullibardin, and there, before the same, he will see the length and breadth of her planted with hawthorn by the wright that helped to make her.
Side xviii - They agreed, that the two kingdoms should be inseparably united into one monarchy, under her majesty, her heirs, and successors, and under the same limitations, according to the acts of settlement; but, when the Scottish commissioners proposed, that the rights and privileges of their company trading to Africa and the Indies, should be preserved and maintained, such a difficulty arose as could not be surmounted, and no further progress was made in this commission.
Side 563 - ... which make the heart to glow with joy when thought of. The upper part is an ample granary ; from whence corn is...
Side 293 - ... six hours. They are so rapid that the fishermen can only shoot and haul their lines at the turn of the tide; and therefore the lines always remain upon the ground about six hours.
Side 124 - January through a long navigation, frequently amidst unceasing hurricanes, not to a comfortable home and a cheerful family, but to a hut composed of turf, without windows, doors, or chimney, environed with snow, and almost hid from the eye by its astonishing depth.
Side 174 - Being has never, from the earlieft records, been once known to withdraw his ble fling from the whole, though he often thinks proper to deny it to particulars ; yet this partial failure (for which we fee no natural reafon...
Side 355 - ... the united ftrength of two men has forced in the harpoon deeper : as foon as they perceive themfelves wounded, they fling up their tail and plunge headlong to the bottom, and frequently coil the rope round them in their agonies, attempting to difengage themfelves from the weapon by rolling on the ground, for it is often found greatly bent. As foon as...