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These clay tablets or books were arranged in numerical order, and the library at Agane, which existed about 2000 B. C. even had a catalogue, in which each piece of literature was numbered, so that readers had only to write down the number of the tablet wanted, and the librarian would hand it over.
I'se convene ye baith in an action of scandal and false imprisonment I am a free burgess and a magistrate o' Glasgow; Nicol Jarvie is my name, sae was my father's afore me I am a bailie, be praised for the honour, and my father was a deacon." "He was a prick-eared cur," said Major Galbraith, "and fought agane the King at Bothwell Brigg." "He paid what he ought and what he bought, Mr.
Ye ken weel that Britain was no always the ane country. There were many kings in Britain lang agane. But whiles it was so armies could come from over the sea and land, and ravage the country. And sae, in the end, it was found better tae ha' the ane strong country and the ane strong rule. Syne then no foreign invader has e'er set foot in Britain.
Jist open the door, mem, gien ye please, an lat's hae a keek intill 't." "I daren't open it. It's never opened, I tell you. It's against the rules of the house. Come to my room, and I'll tell you the story about it." "Weel, ye 'll lat me see intil the neist winna ye? There's nae law agane openin' hit is there?" said Malcolm, approaching the door next to the one in dispute.
There's many a man has keen een for the mote in his neighbor's eye who canna see the beam in his own that's as true to-day as when it was said first twa thousand years agane. I ken fine there's folk do no like me. I've stood up and talked to them, from the stage, and I've heard say that Harry Lauder should stick to being a comic, and not try to preach. Aye, I'm no preacher, and fine I ken it.
I'se convene ye baith in an action of scandal and false imprisonment I am a free burgess and a magistrate o' Glasgow; Nicol Jarvie is my name, sae was my father's afore me I am a bailie, be praised for the honour, and my father was a deacon." "He was a prick-eared cur," said Major Galbraith, "and fought agane the King at Bothwell Brigg." "He paid what he ought and what he bought, Mr.
"Weel, I wad like to hear what ye hae agane Manicheism!" "The main objection of theologians would be, I presume, that it did not present a God perfect in power as in goodness; but I think it a far more objectionable point that it presents evil as possessing power in itself.
Osbaldistone," said the Bailie, who was probably better acquainted with the process in civil than in military cases, "that he has refused sufficient bail. It's my opinion that the creature Dougal will have a good action of wrongous imprisonment and damages agane him, under the Act seventeen hundred and one, and I'll see the creature righted."
It's that o' a lover and his lass a walkin' in the gloamin'. And it's a sicht that always tears at my heart in the city, and fills me wi' sorrow and wi' sympathy for the puir young creatures, that's missin' sae much o' the best and bonniest time o' their lives, and ne'er knowin' it, puir things! Lang agane I'd an engagement at the Paragon Music Hall it must be many and many a year agane.
Lat a lee lie, as ye wad the deevil's tail 'at the laird's Jock took aff wi' the edge o' 's spaud." "A' thing 's agane me the noo!" sighed Malcolm. "Auld Jobb ower again!" returned Miss Horn almost sarcastically. "The deil had the warst o' 't though, an' wull hae, i' the lang hinner en'. Meanwhile ye maun face him. There's nae airmour for the back aither i' the Bible or i' the Pilgrim's Progress."
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