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Page 81 - These questions, it is evident, may be regarded from two points of view — from the point of view of the reader of history and the point of view of its writer.
Page 36 - An Act for the effectual securing the Kingdom of England from the apparent dangers that may arise from several Acts lately passed in the Parliament of Scotland.
Page 27 - I must tell you, there are two Kings and two Kingdoms in Scotland. There is Christ Jesus the King, and His Kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James the Sixth is — and of whose kingdom not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member!
Page 47 - Seeing that the office and duty of the godly Magistrate is not only to purge the Church of God from all superstition, and to set it at liberty from bondage of tyrants, but also to provide, to the uttermost of his power, how it may abide in the same purity to the posterities following, we cannot but freely communicate our judgments with your Honours in this behalf.
Page 41 - It is a form of words employed by his countrymen when they would relieve a sigh with a jest. IV. FIRST FRUITS OF THE UNION, 1707 — 1714. A correspondent writing to the Earl of Mar from Edinburgh on the 1st of May, the day when the Treaty of Union came into force, uses these significant words : " There is nothing so much taken notice of here to-day as the solemnity in the south part of Britain and the want of it here.
Page 27 - This I must say for Scotland, and I may trewly vaunt it; Here I sit and governe it with my Pen, I write and it is done, and by a Clearke of the Councell I governe Scotland now, which others could not doe by the sword.
Page 97 - ... clear a field of four miles circumference of all the living creatures exceeding a foot of height, that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another; by which means he made it appear, that he was able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill thirty thousand Turks, without the hazard of one Christian.
Page 23 - Treaty, the votes of the representatives of the burghs and the shires were equally divided, while the vote of the majority of the nobles was cast for Union. Had that vote not been given, the Union must at least have been postponed, and the result of delay on the conflicting interests and the seething passions of the hour both countries would alike have had occasion to regard with well-founded apprehension. From this survey of the successive action of the Scottish nobles, one conclusion at least is...
Page 35 - ... of the old capitalist-landlord system — has accomplished great social changes. As a result of revolutionary struggles and transformations, the power of the capitalists and landlords has been overthrown, a State of People's Democracy has been firmly established, and a new social system, in accord with the interests and aspirations of the great majority of the people, is taking shape and growing in strength. The legal principles of this system are laid down by the Constitution of the Polish People's...
Page 97 - Archytas' dove), which, by virtue of some secret springs, inward resorts, with other implements and materials fit for the purpose, inclosed within the bowels thereof, had the power, if proportionable in bulk to the action required of it (for he could have made it of all sizes), to clear a field of four miles circumference of all the living creatures exceeding a foot of...