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Excerpt from Territorial Soldiering: In the North-East of Scotland During 1759-1814As for myself, 1 shall not readily forget the sympathetic courtesy which prompted Your Grace to allow me to examine in my limited leisure the great array of documents from your archives bearing on the history of the four regiments which your ancestor, the 4th Duhe of Gordon, raised between the years 1759 and 1794. That invaluable material, which was not at the d...

Excerpt from College CarolsKing's Gulielmus Elphinstone Loquitur In the Quad The Cage On a Gown The Bajan's Epistle Bacchus and the Bajan Greek Arya/upa. The Boon of Bohn A Mathematic Monod-y The Magistrand The Library Pound Trim Little Maids at King's The Registrar and the Maid The Whirling Wheel In Summer Session The Weary Student The Rhyme of the Rostrum O Tempora In Chapel Otium cum Dignitate John.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from The Gordon BookMarch (now our beloved Duke), with his own family, his brothers, Lords Henry, Alexander, and George. What a galaxy of true nobility! See the soldier father (who, by the careful nursing of his army surgeon, Dr, Hair, did not succumb to the enemy's bullet at Orthez.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

Excerpt from Scottish Notes and Queries, Vol. 1: July, 1899, to June, 1900About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cas...

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Excerpt from The Lord Rectors of the Universities of AberdeenChancellor to do so but whether he ever had to do so does not appear.The fact to notice is this, that at King's Col lege the students from an early period had lost all voice in the election of the Rector. This was not so much the case at Marischal College, for there the Professors still recognised the Procurators of the Nations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from The Lord Rectors of the Universities of AberdeenChancellor to do so but whether he ever had to do so does not appear.The fact to notice is this, that at King's Col lege the students from an early period had lost all voice in the election of the Rector. This was not so much the case at Marischal College, for there the Professors still recognised the Procurators of the Nations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from The House of Gordon, Vol. 1No. 1. - Roll of Alumni in Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596-1860. Edited by P. J. Anderson. 1900.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservin...

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Excerpt from The Gay Gordons: Some Strange Adventures of a Famous Scots Family Stanislas Poniatowski (1732 great-grandson of Lady Catherine Gordon, daughter of the second Marquis of Huntly with some account of the present Marquis Huntly Gordon of Warsaw, and the Princess Olive of Cumberland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repr...

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Excerpt from Scottish Notes and Queries, Vol. 1: July, 1899, to June, 1900 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In ...

Excerpt from Thomas Gordon, the "Independent Whig" Unfortunately, we know very little about Thomas Gordon's own history, for, though a prodigal dispenser of Opinions, he was very sparing of the facts about his origins and career, so that we might very well call him Silentio rather than Silenus (an epithet applied to him because he happened to be a Commissioner of Wine Licenses) as Pope did in the Dunciad Gordon's own reticence was further acc...

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Excerpt from College Carols These College Carols originally appeared as a series, by "The Jack Daw of Rhymes, " in Alma Mater, the magazine conducted by the undergraduates of Aberdeen University, between November, 1888, and February, 1894. The present selection, less than half the original number, has been made on the basis of representing the greater part of the students experiences. Seven of them, however, were not included in the complete ...

Excerpt from The House of Gordon, Vol. 1 No. 1. - Roll of Alumni in Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596-1860. Edited by P. J. Anderson. 1900. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, p...

Excerpt from Territorial Soldiering: In the North-East of Scotland During 1759-1814 My Lord Duke, If the Epistle Dedicatory has fallen into desuetude, the grim business of battle is so far front being in abeyance that we have been compelled to turn the poean of Peace with which the centenary of the Treaties of Paris and of Ghent was to have been celebrated into the pursuit of the greatest War the world has ever seen. And in the event, this ...

Excerpt from The Gay Gordons: Some Strange Adventures of a Famous Scots Family Stanislas Poniatowski (1732 great-grandson of Lady Catherine Gordon, daughter of the second Marquis of Huntly with some account of the present Marquis Huntly Gordon of Warsaw, and the Princess Olive of Cumberland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repr...