The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation;: With an Abstract and Catalogue of Their Works; Their Various Editions; and the Judgement of the Learn'd Concerning Them, Volume 2James Watson in Craig's-Close, on the North-side of the Cross., 1711 - Authors, Scottish |
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Page 97
... same time , the Castle of Edinburgh , was surprized by Wil- liam Douglafs , Sir William Bullok , Sir Walter Frazer , Sir Walter Touris , and Sir John Sandelands , which they managed thus : Walter Curry , a Mer- chant , who had then a ...
... same time , the Castle of Edinburgh , was surprized by Wil- liam Douglafs , Sir William Bullok , Sir Walter Frazer , Sir Walter Touris , and Sir John Sandelands , which they managed thus : Walter Curry , a Mer- chant , who had then a ...
Page 191
... same Sentence . This Article is accepted , as it is in the 20th Seffion of the Council of Bafle ; as is likeways the Eighth , by which it is Ordered , That a Peaceable and Triennial Poffeffion of a Be- nefice , providing they have any ...
... same Sentence . This Article is accepted , as it is in the 20th Seffion of the Council of Bafle ; as is likeways the Eighth , by which it is Ordered , That a Peaceable and Triennial Poffeffion of a Be- nefice , providing they have any ...
Page 268
... same were Compos'd Cafes at Law : But the Knowledge of Expounding of all these , and the Cafes themselves , were kept by the College of Pontifices , who appointed Yearly those , that Judg ed Private Perfons ; which Custom the People ...
... same were Compos'd Cafes at Law : But the Knowledge of Expounding of all these , and the Cafes themselves , were kept by the College of Pontifices , who appointed Yearly those , that Judg ed Private Perfons ; which Custom the People ...
Page 314
... same thing is read therein ( g ) , at the End of S. John , as in the Copy of the Oratory , and expreffed after the fame manner . In another Copy in the French King's Library ( b ) , where this Hiftory is wanting , it is added on the ...
... same thing is read therein ( g ) , at the End of S. John , as in the Copy of the Oratory , and expreffed after the fame manner . In another Copy in the French King's Library ( b ) , where this Hiftory is wanting , it is added on the ...
Page 391
... same with that , which Ptolemy calls Vidogara , and places in this Country as a Town of Note : But that for which it is moftly Famed , is its being the Birth - Place of that Great Scholar , John Scot , who lived in Charles the Great's ...
... same with that , which Ptolemy calls Vidogara , and places in this Country as a Town of Note : But that for which it is moftly Famed , is its being the Birth - Place of that Great Scholar , John Scot , who lived in Charles the Great's ...
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Page 326 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 463 - Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest: because I said I am the Son of God?
Page 463 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 338 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Page 141 - That no man is without sin so long as he liveth. 4. That every true Christian may know himself to be in a state of grace. 5. That a man is not justified by works, but by faith only. 6. That good works make not a good man, but that a good man doeth good works.
Page 322 - And he beheld them, and said, what is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Page 12 - Africa :, that about Midnight it fell Calm, and being carried away with the Tide, by the time it was Day, he found he had left Britain on the left hand ; but then the Tide turning they fell to their Oars, and by Noon reached that part of the Ifland where he Landed before, and came on Shore without oppofition : and then March'd up into the Country, leaving his Ships at Anchor in lit
Page 505 - ... who practised rebellion against the state. To this our prelate replied, that he had neither raised nor practised rebellion ; but, perceiving the adversaries of queen Mary countenanced, and her deprived of all hope of liberty, he could not abandon his sovereign in her afflictions, but do his best to procure her freedom ; and that it would never be found that the privileges of ambassadors were violated, via juris, by course of law, but only via facti, by way of fact, which seldom had good success....