Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
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Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volume 1 John Hill Burton Affichage du livre entier - 1852 |
Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, Volume 1 John Hill Burton Affichage du livre entier - 1852 |
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Page 116 - The time and expense of navigation to China, Japan, the Spice Islands, and the far greatest part of the East Indies...
Page 216 - Mercy, mercy, Lady Frendraught, Will ye not sink with sin ? For first your husband killed my father, And now you burn his son." O then out spoke her, Lady Frendraught, And loudly did she cry— " It were great pity for good Lord John, But none for Rothiemay. But the keys are casten in the deep draw-well, Ye cannot get away.
Page 116 - Thus this door of the seas, and the key of the universe, with anything of a reasonable management, will, of course, enable its proprietors to give laws to both oceans, and to become arbitrators of the commercial world, without being liable to the fatigues, expenses, and dangers, or contracting the guilt and blood, of Alexander and Caesar.
Page 140 - The troops of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. They were confounded because they had hoped; They came thither, and were ashamed.
Page 243 - The housewives' tun not work, nor the milk churn ! Writhe children's wrists, and suck their breath in sleep. Get vials of their blood ! and where the sea Casts up his slimy ooze, search for a weed To open locks with, and to rivet charms, Planted about her in the wicked feat Of all her mischiefs, which are manifold.
Page 116 - Indies will be lessened more than half, and the consumption of European commodities and manufactories will soon be more than doubled. Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world shall need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work.
Page 304 - ... did abide so many blowes in them, that his legges were crusht and beaten together as small as might bee, and the bones and flesh so bruised, that the blood and marrow spouted forth in great abundance, whereby they were made unserviceable for ever...
Page 302 - ... (would it not have been as natural to have tried the fair means first?) " but that would prevail as little: lastly, he was put to the most cruel and severe pain in the world, called the boots...
Page 141 - ... relieving each other by preaching alternately, but allowing no relief to their hearers. The employment of one of the days get aside for religious exercise, which was a Wednesday, they dividí tl into three parts, thanksgiving, humiliation, and supplication, in which three ministers followed each other...