The Birthplace and Parentage of W. Paterson, with Suggestions for Improvements on the Scottish Registers

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Pagina 28 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Pagina 66 - ... sustain by reducing the coin of Scotland to the standard and value of the coin of England may be made good in the next place that the capital stock or fund of the African and Indian Company of Scotland advanced together with the interest...
Pagina 110 - Many seamen and soldiers, whose services had been refused, because more had offered themselves than were needed, were found hid in the ships, and, when ordered ashore, clung to the ropes and timbers, imploring to go without reward with their companions.
Pagina 111 - God's holy name, or any of his divine attributes ; or of the unhallowing or prophaning the sabbath day. " And finally, as the best and surest means to render any government successful, durable, and happy, it shall (by the help of Almighty God) be ever our constant and chiefest care that all our further constitutions, laws, and ordinances, be consonant and...
Pagina 107 - Trade will increase trade, and money will beget money, and the trading world shall need no more to want work for their hands, but will rather want hands for their work.
Pagina 115 - Two ministers, Messrs. James and Scot, had been sent out with the first expedition, one of whom died on the passage, and the other soon after his arrival at Darien. The council having written home to the directors, regretting the death of their ministers, and begging that others might be sent to supply their place, the commission of the general assembly, at the particular desire of the board of directors, missioned the well-known Mr.
Pagina 105 - Providing always, . . . that of the fund or capital stock that shall be agreed to be advanced and employed by the foresaid undertakers and their co-partners the half at least shall be appointed and allotted for Scottish men within this kingdom...
Pagina 104 - ... evidence, and at variance with the known course of his after-life. It is certain, however, that he was in the West Indies, but it is much more likely that his pursuits there were commercial than either clerical or piratical. He was admitted one of the original directors of the Bank of England ; but his richer associates no sooner became fully possessed of his ideas than they found out pretexts for quarrelling with him, and finally expelled him from all share in conducting that business of which...
Pagina 7 - I give the surplus of my estate, if, after payment of my debts, any such shall be, to be equally divided among the said persons, legatees, in proportion to every person's sum hereby bequeathed : all which sums above given, amounting to six thousand and four hundred pounds, I appoint to be paid by my executor here immediately after named. I do hereby appoint my good friend, Mr Paul Daranda, of London, merchant, to whom I and my family are under very great obligations, sole executor of this my last...
Pagina 108 - Thus, not unlike the case of the dog in the fable, they have lost their own country, and yet not gotten the Indies. People and their industry are the true riches of a prince or nation; and in respect to them all other things are but imaginary. This was well understood by the people of Rome, who, contrary to the maxims of Sparta and Spain, by general naturalisation, liberty of conscience, and immunity of government, far more effectually and advantageously conquered and kept the world, than ever they...

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