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Throughout Scotland and Ireland there are scattered great numbers of _round towers_, which have puzzled all antiquarians. They have of late obtained the general name of _Fire Towers_, and our engraving represents the view of one of them, at Brechin, in Scotland. It consists of...
See, beneath the mighty blade, Gor'd with many a ghastly wound, Low the fam'd Sir-loin is laid, And sinks in many a gulph profound. Arise, arise, ye sons of glory, Pies and pudd...
1. Chapter 1Throughout Scotland and Ireland there are scattered great numbers of _round towers_, which have puzzled all antiquarians. They have of late obtained the general name of _Fire To...
3. Chapter 3We consider it quite possible to bring down to ordinary capacities even the truths of pure mathematics, by the substitution of a less general and precise species of evidence. We...
4. Chapter 4The reader will probably recollect, in the well-known story, his reply to the lady by whom he had been hospitably entertained, but who refused to allow him the indulgence of his...