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... LORDS OF GORDON AND BADENOCH , EARLS OF GORDON - Elizabeth of Gordon , the heiress of Sir Adam , married before 1408 ... Lord of Badenoch a few years afterwards . He acquired by marriage the baronies of Cluny , Aboyne , and Glenmuick in ...
... LORDS OF GORDON AND BADENOCH , EARLS OF GORDON - Elizabeth of Gordon , the heiress of Sir Adam , married before 1408 ... Lord of Badenoch a few years afterwards . He acquired by marriage the baronies of Cluny , Aboyne , and Glenmuick in ...
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... Lord John Gordon , second son of the first Marquis an easy pardon , and was made Marquis of Huntly of Huntly , was made Viscount of Melgund and in 1599. He died in 1636 , leaving a character of Lord Aboyne in 1627. Three years ...
... Lord John Gordon , second son of the first Marquis an easy pardon , and was made Marquis of Huntly of Huntly , was made Viscount of Melgund and in 1599. He died in 1636 , leaving a character of Lord Aboyne in 1627. Three years ...
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... Lord of Session age of sixteen , he resolved - to use his own words- in 1680 , Lord President of the court in 1681 , and to go to some foreign country , not caring much on Lord Chancellor in the following year . He was what pretence ...
... Lord of Session age of sixteen , he resolved - to use his own words- in 1680 , Lord President of the court in 1681 , and to go to some foreign country , not caring much on Lord Chancellor in the following year . He was what pretence ...
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... Lord Mansfield , were destroyed . G. was arrested , and tried for high treason ; but no evidence being adduced of treasonable design , he was acquitted . His subsequent conduct seemed that of a person of unsound mind . Having , in 1786 ...
... Lord Mansfield , were destroyed . G. was arrested , and tried for high treason ; but no evidence being adduced of treasonable design , he was acquitted . His subsequent conduct seemed that of a person of unsound mind . Having , in 1786 ...
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... Lord's life - of his sayings and doings - proceeding in two cases from men who were his apostles and companions ( Matthew and John ) ; and in the two other cases from men who , 210 although not themselves apostles , were apostolic in ...
... Lord's life - of his sayings and doings - proceeding in two cases from men who were his apostles and companions ( Matthew and John ) ; and in the two other cases from men who , 210 although not themselves apostles , were apostolic in ...
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Page 111 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 362 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
Page 55 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Page 183 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London: He was the author of various articles in the scientific journals of the day, and in the Encyclopadia liritannica.
Page 249 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — "for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 17 - Hebrews published a Gospel in their own language ; while Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at Rome and founding a church there. And after their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself...
Page 302 - Fig. 36. growing complexity of shields arose from augmentations granted to distinguish the younger branches of a family, or charges assumed from the maternal coat by the descendants of an heiress.
Page 143 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 56 - GRAY, THOMAS, an English poet, was born in London on the 26th December 1716. His father, Philip Gray, a money-scrivener, was of a disposition so violent, that his wife was obliged to separate from him ; and it was mainly through her exertions that her son was placed at Eton, and afterwards at Cambridge. At Eton, he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole, the son of the prime minister ; and when his college education was completed, he accompanied his friend on a tour through France and Italy. After...