Memoir of Sir J. Sinclair1853 - 32页 |
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第3页 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
第4页 - John on various subjects, besides eighteen volumes m crown octavo, and The Statistical Account of Scotland in twenty-one ! The baronet's next undertaking was a quarto essay against what he then considered a too strict and Puritanical observance of the Sabbath in Scotland ; but with singular conscientiousness, he destroyed the whole manuscript on hearing this remark from his friend Dr Adam Smith, which was the more memorable, as coming from the apologist of David Hume : ' Your book, Sir John, is very...
第22页 - And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon. But they came with one accord to him, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's country.
第12页 - Pray don't give ministers more credit than they deserve. In manufactures and commerce you may bet securely, but they never did and never will do any thing for the plough. Your Board of Agriculture will be in the moon. If on earth, remember I am to be Secretary.
第22页 - We have begun,' exclaimed Lord Sinclair in 1803, 'another campaign against the foreign enemies of the country. . . . Why should we not attempt a campaign also against our great domestic foe, I mean the hitherto unconquered sterility of so large a proportion of the surface of the kingdom...
第5页 - To conquer this implied impossibility, and give ii lasting specimen of his powers, the young baronet personally examined this apparently impregnable mountain ; lined out a road, with great engineering skill, himself; and having appointed 1260 labourers to meet him there early one morning, he set them all simultaneously to work. They began at the dawn of day ; and...
第2页 - Groat's House, and stands almost within sea-mark on the Pentland Firth, where in stormy weather the spray has sometimes passed over the roof. Fish have been caught with a line from the drawing-room window ; and vessels been wrecked so close under the turrets, that the voices of the drowning sailors could be heard. The father of Sir John Sinclair, a learned and pious Christian, educated by the celebrated Dr Watts, lived under a solemn consciousness, from constitutional symptoms, that he must die very...
第2页 - No. 13. i to him by twenty-two counties in Great Britain, as well as by numerous towns, where he was gratefully acknowledged as a general benefactor to his country. Testimonials were publicly presented to him on five different occasions ; he became the confidential friend of Pitt, Perceval, Lord Melville, and all the leading...