The New Statistical Account of Scotland: AberdeenW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Aberdeenshire agriculture amount annually annum appears arable attended average number belonging bolls breed Buchan built burgh Castle cattle chalders chapel Chapel of Garioch chiefly considerable Crimond crop cultivated distance district Earl east Ellon erected expense extent farm feet Forbes former Fraserburgh funds Fyvie Garioch glebe Gordon grain granite grass ground heritors hill horses imperial acres improvement inhabitants Insch Inverury Kintore kirk-session labour land late leases lime manse Marischal College Methlick Migvie miles minister moss nearly neighbourhood number of persons oats Old Meldrum parish parish church parochial pasture Peterhead planted plough poor population PRESBYTERY present proprietor rent residence rish river river Dee river Don rock Scotland side situated soil Statistical Account stone Strathdon SYNOD OF ABERDEEN Tarland tenants tion town turnips upwards V.-PAROCHIAL ECONOMY village whole wood Ythan
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Pagina 43 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
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Pagina 554 - July ; and from the ferocity with which it was contested, and the dismal spectacle of civil war and bloodshed exhibited to the country, it appears to have made a deep impression on the national mind. It fixed itself in the music and the poetry of Scotland. A march, called the Battle of Harlaw...
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