Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over th...

Full Text Search Details
...EUR EMIGRANT THE SECOND CABIN I FIRST ENCOUNTERED my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spir... ...mpropriety; and the whole strength of her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had hear... ...doors broken and removed for firewood; of homeless men loiter- ing at the street-corners of Glasgow with their chests beside them; of closed factories... ...ed. Coming as they did from a country in so low a state as Great Britain, many of them from Glasgow, which commercially speaking was as good as dead, ... ...erched across the carpenters bench upon one thigh, found Blackwood; a neat, bright, dapper, Glasgow-looking man, with a bead of an eye and a rank twan... ...w was continually threatening to slip his cable for the States, and at last, one Wednesday, Glasgow was left widowed of her Brown. Some months afterwa... ...ming thick on the Devonian. He could find no berth in Belfast, and had to work a passage to Glasgow on a steamer. She reached the Broomielaw on a 43 ... ...er, and he could never have been dry. By night he walked the streets, and by day slept upon Glasgow Green, and heard, in the intervals of his dozing, ... ...nse of amusement. Why he did not go to the Sailors’ House I know not; I presume there is in Glasgow one of these institutions, which are by far the ha...

Excerpt Details
...I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

Full Text Search Details
...ty. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library. If a word by way of suggestion to teachers be p... ...outh, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire b... ...ght, as a solitary spectator, when seated on the box of the Manchester and Glasgow mail, in the second or third summer after Waterloo. I find it neces... ...ffice has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. B... ... came about that I found myself left in charge of his Majesty’s London and Glasgow mail, then running at the least twelve miles an hour. What made thi... ...ng, from which cause, and from the external prettiness of the book—being a Glasgow reprint by the celebrated Foulis, and gaily bound—I was induced to ...

Full Text Search Details
...URAGEOUS BATTLE the outcome of the court cases. Friends at the End (FATE), Glasgow , Scotland, (44) 141- 334-3287; www.friends-at-the-end.org.uk {info...

Excerpt Details
...i, the neutral-tinted spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes of the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist?s suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it, he wears a suit of clean white linen, acceptable in color, if not in cut, to the Moorish mind....

Full Text Search Details
...f the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist’s suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie wi...

Excerpt Details
...e of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, h...

Full Text Search Details
... marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberde... ...– this book may alone preserve a memory of James Walter Ferrier and Robert Glasgow Brown. Their thoughts ran very differently on that December morning...

Full Text Search Details
...Is he a Christian even? He might be a Mahommedan or a Deevil or a Fire-worshipper, for what I ken.” The third brother had his name on a door-plate, no... ...of Hermiston was all by now; and he was a partner of his firm, and looked to die a bailie. He too had married, and was rearing a plen- tiful family in... ...s with his broadcloth, his beaver hat, and the ample plies of his neckcloth. Though an eminently solid man at bottom, after the pattern of Hob, he had... ...o hear Clem, ar- 56 Weir of Hermiston rived upon one of his visits, and dealing in a spirit of con- tinuous irony with the affairs and personalities ... ...e pew and con- templated vacancy with the shadow of a smile between play- ful and sad, that became him strangely. Dandie’s sister, sit- ting by the si... ...e in her attitude of pretty decency, her mind should run upon him! If he spared a glance in her direction, he should know she was a well-behaved young... ...n something of a flutter till the word Amen. Even then, she was far too well-bred to gratify her curiosity with any impatience. She resumed her seat l... ...looking insupportably prosperous, and patronising Torrance with the favour of a modified atten- 63 Robert Louis Stevenson tion, as of one who was use... ...chalantly back; and that deadly instrument, the maiden, was suddenly unmasked in profile. Though not quite in the front of the fashion (had anybody ca...

Full Text Search Details
... offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow. I confess the news caused me both pain and merriment. May I remark... ...ago would cut quite as rueful a figure on the same romantic stage. T o the Glasgow people I would say only one word, but that is of gold; I have not y... ...ay only one word, but that is of gold; I have not yet written a book about Glasgow. 8 EDINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES with the town beating to arms behi...

Full Text Search Details
... mightily surprised, for he was obviously Scandinavian, and begged him to explain. It seemed he had learned his English and done nearly all his sailin... ...ain. It seemed he had learned his English and done nearly all his sailing in Scotch ships. “Out of Glasgow,” said he, “or Greenock; but that’s all the... ... lo- cal patriotisms and prejudices, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme east and west of that great continent of America. When I am ...

Full Text Search Details
...g; from which cause, and from the external prettiness of the book, being a Glasgow reprint, by the celebrated Foulis, and gaily bound, I was induced t... ...loucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns... ...with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- rived from long ... ...idity, by impinging on a moonlight night against the off hind wheel of the Glasgow mail! Deodand upon the said wheel—two-pence.” What a simple lapidar... ...ffice has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and win- nowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns.... ...es from Preston, I found myself left in charge of his Majesty’s London and Glasgow mail, then running about eleven miles an hour. What made this negli...

Full Text Search Details
...put out of fash- ion. They were to be found chiefly at Perth, Stirling, or Glasgow, where they and their horses were usually hired by 110 Chronicles ... ...f being here quoted:— “In the year 1795 a serious disturbance broke out in Glasgow among the Breadalbane Fencibles. Several men hav- ing been confined... ... be, but that he had left business of the utmost importance to a friend in Glasgow, which he wished to transact before his death; that, as to himself,... ...siness was settled, and that, if the officer would suffer him to return to Glasgow, a few hours there would be sufficient, and he would join him befor... ...such, that he com- plied with the request of the prisoner, who returned to Glasgow at night, settled his business, and left the town be- fore daylight... ...g circuit to avoid being seen, apprehended as a deserter, and sent back to Glasgow, as probably his account of his officer’s indul- gence would not ha...

Full Text Search Details
...ich I think, with her coloured-glass skylight ends bearing the motto, “Let Glasgow Flourish,” was certainly one of the most heavily-sparred specimens.... ... There, alone in a noisy crowd, I would write slowly a letter addressed to Glasgow, of which the gist would be: There is no cargo, and no prospect of ... ...ion. In this it differs from Liverpool, from Cardiff, from Newcastle, from Glasgow; and therein the Thames differs from the Mersey, from the Tyne, fro...

Full Text Search Details
...ive city, and set out on foot for California, with a more immediate eye to Glasgow. 19 Stevenson CHAPTER IV—THE SECOND SOWING I T IS NO PART OF MINE ... ..., and in the hour of church-time silence, had stolen from that city by the Glasgow road. In the face of these changes, it were impi- ous to doubt fort... ...ortman- teau from the cloak-room, and was soon whirling in a cab along the Glasgow Road. The change of movement and position, the sight of the lamps t...

Full Text Search Details
...man, isn’t he?” “Y es. Commands that biggish dark-green steamer: ‘Sissie - Glasgow.’ He has never commanded anything else but the ‘Sissie -Glasgow,’ o... ...ho belonged to Davidson. It was he who, shortly before he died, ordered in Glasgow the new Sissie for Davidson to command.” We walked into the shade o...

Full Text Search Details
...ht have fallen among robbers in his way homeward. CHAPTER IV UNIVERSITIES: GLASGOW; CAMBRIDGE At a later stage, John had some instruction from a Dr. W... ...opitious and flourishing, he, as his brother had already been, was sent to Glasgow University, in which city their Mother had connections. His brother... ...family; much attached to one another in their College years as afterwards. Glasgow, however, was not properly their Col- lege scene: here, except that... ... val- ued intimate of John’s, I find nothing special recorded of them. The Glasgow curriculum, for John especially, lasted but one year; who, after so... ...(the Oriental Diplomatist and Writer), Mr. Kirkman Finlay (then Member for Glasgow), and other political notabilities had now formed them- selves,—wit...

Full Text Search Details
...,” he resumed, “our business here is to be 127 Catriona finished, and I proceed by Glasgow. I would be very glad to have you of my party, Mr David.” ... ...deigned to remark the fact of my exist- ence. And now I was to ride with my lord to Glasgow; I was to dwell with him in Edinburgh; I was to be brought... ... The following day, Prestongrange and I, with a consider- able company, set out for Glasgow, where (to my impatience) we continued to linger some time... ...f a sudden, and to which he had so briskly found an answer. I was to be tethered in Glasgow by that job of copying, which in mere outward decency I co... ...ool, and we thought we loved each other dearly. Well, the time came when he went to Glasgow to a merchant’s house, that was his second cousin once rem...

Full Text Search Details
... upon the salary allowed by such a bursary. Some years ago the editor of a Glasgow daily paper called upon Oxford and Cambridge, with a patronizing fl... ...ight be bought, to order, by one day’s common subscription of Liverpool or Glasgow merchants, students very rarely indeed have admission to its free u... ...proceeding upon a 105 Thomas de Quincey silent comparison with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jena, Leipsic, Padua, &c.,—then are they self-exposed, as men not ... ...ave heard of as varying pro tanto the uniform features of this picture. In Glasgow I have heard of an arrangement by which young academicians are plac... ...ts the effectual amount of control, equal; and were they equally diffused, Glasgow and Oxford would, in this point, stand upon the same level of disci... ... point, stand upon the same level of discipline. But it hap- pens that the Glasgow case was a personal accident; personal, both as regarded him who vo... .... These noble lords had drawn their ideas of a university exclusively from Glasgow. Here, it is well known, and I mention it neither for praise nor bl... ...em? I willingly believe that it is not; and, with respect to Edinburgh and Glasgow, I am persuaded that their weight of dignity is quite sufficient, a... ... English Demosthenes. Upon this hint, Lord Brougham, in his address to the Glasgow students, has deluged the great Athenian with wordy admiration. The...

Full Text Search Details
...y way to the westward of the capital by Colinton, till I came out upon the Glasgow road. And there, to my great pleasure and won- der, I beheld a regi... ...ut speech. There is nothing left me, sir, but to put back into the port of Glasgow after hands; and there (by your leave) ye will find them that are b... ...hip” sir” said the captain. “It has nae draught of water.” “Well, then, to Glasgow if ye list!” says Alan. “We’ll have the laugh of ye at the least.” ...

Full Text Search Details
...Edinburgh, or towards our metropolis and mart of gain, whereby I insinuate Glasgow, are frequently led to make Gandercleugh their abiding stage and pl... ...states and men also; for I have visited the famous cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the former twice, and the latter three times, in the course of my ...

Full Text Search Details
...rely successful flight of Mr. Alfred Butteridge from the Crystal Palace to Glasgow and back in a small businesslike-looking machine heavier than air—a... ...ne. A man was flying securely and well. Scotland was agape for his coming. Glasgow he reached by one o’clock, and it is related that scarcely a ship-y... ...s, quite overwhelming sums to the first person to fly from Manches- ter to Glasgow, from London to Manchester, one hundred miles, two hundred miles in...

Full Text Search Details
...on the Pike-Exercise, called “Pallas Armata.” Moreover, he was educated at Glasgow College, though he escaped to become an Ensign in the German wars, ... ... Highlands, and came with his sister as far as Gandercleugh, on his way to Glasgow, to take a passage to Canada. But winter was now set in, and as he ... ...e in saying so,” said Montrose, “in so loud a tone. The puritan weavers of Glasgow shall provide them plenty of broad-cloth, when we make a descent fr...