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... aril clouds of iiieenfe from tobacco pipes, sad plentiful libation, c porter. Tise fields around I-or.do;-. fwatmed with cricket-pla* ers arid boxers ; and the roads tor many miks Mere covert with poft chail'.s, phaetons, and ?? — ?? are amoi ihe gloiious ...

Published: Monday 02 August 1784
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

On the Sensibility of Insects. By the Abbe Poteet

... way as other animals» of thefe founds proceed from thej** 1 tome, it is the beating of thei r v ® in the grafshopper and cricket» (!) thers, it is the fridion of their l in in the fphinx Lin.; Weft .° Ur ids commonly ceafe when the Ppear S a P t ' ve ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1785
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3168 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... William Dugdale fays, M he threw into a diSolute and disorderly courfe of life, being more famous whillt there for foot ball, cricket,, cudgelling, and wreftling, than for ftudy; and being a rough and bluftering difpofition, he acquired the name of Royfter ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1785
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9854 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

LONDON, OPI. 1

... days, to call a Common Hall, for the pnrpofe • into confideration what further fteps are neceflary to S-etothefliop-tax. CRICKET-MATCH, for One Thousand afide, played at Shaw Park, the feat of the I . EJ _/ „ Lord Cathcart in Scotland, September rht ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1785
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3508 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

II O T S E of CO M M ONS. 1

... members, their names re :i ?? 011 ti.e reduced lilt, were called to the ta- bic to b-e ?? : Mr J. Selwya, 1 Mr H. Thornton, Mr Cricket, Mr Orchard, Hon. Mr Cocks, I Mrß-rrcll, Sir James Dnti, Mr R. Thornton, MrD Polteney, | Mr Lang.ton, Mr Cecil. j Mr Jnmes ...

Published: Monday 03 April 1786
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4089 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FT'RRIFF BLEACHFIELD. | (‘1 cOP.GE PATON continu=s to Lleach a'l kind of ¥ linen cloth. st the following prices ..

... members, their names remaining on the reduced lift, were called to the table %o be fworn :.. M: J.Selwyn Mr H. Thorton; M Cricket, Mr Orchard, Hon. Mr Cocks, %r Burrell. Sir {;mes Duff; r R, Thornten, Mr D Pultency, Mr Langfton, MrCecil,’ Mr James Gordon; ...

Published: Monday 10 April 1786
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 856 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

E DINB U R G II

... Haftings in no fort of ' fnfpetsfe about the final refult ofit. The D ike of D is arrived from Paris, and has bten at a cricket match that waited bis coining over ! but not a word of the commercial treaty to be formed with tlie Cc.irt of France ; that ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1786
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2073 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DECEMBER. A Pastoral Poem. See Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and fad, -with all bis rijing train,

... ftrain. touch'd and tinhleft were my mind, « Mid fullen dsrk lliades of'the eve, u I not fome circumftance find, dirgeful the cricket fliall grieve. heo come, Contemplation, explore j, toils and our vanities too, 'fe pleafares, which ebb from the ihore, As ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1786
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 316 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

DECEMBER. A Pastoral Poem. See Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and fad, -with all bis rijing train,

... ftrain. touch'd and tinhleft were my mind, « Mid fullen dsrk lliades of'the eve, u I not fome circumftance find, dirgeful the cricket fliall grieve. heo come, Contemplation, explore j, toils and our vanities too, 'fe pleafares, which ebb from the ihore, As ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1786
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 635 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

GRAND CRICKET MATCH

... GRAND CRICKET MATCH. Hanover, Oct. 31. THE diversion of cricket, which is so much practised in England, is now become equally a fa- vourite amusement of this country, under the pa- tronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, who is a promising player ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1786
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1492 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

of ik, are to receive on each picce atone of the firft offices detcrioed in the rft arucle of uus

... after a gormandizing meal, put off their coats and unburton their waltcoats, to enjoy fome athletic amufement, fuch as bowls, cricket, &c. are cautioned agfainfl continuing this exereife when the damps of the evening come 0n 3 and agaioft drinking cold liquors ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1787
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2874 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Saturday’s and Sunday’s Poils. From the Englifb Pnpers, dug. 14. DUTCH AFFATIRS

... refided at K=w, thole two young Princes, then :Lout 7and & vears of ace, ufed frequently to amufe themf-lves at = game of cricket, in the prefence of their Roy.l putents. One morning they were bufy at ths ‘avourite exercife, when the luck run againit the ...

Published: Tuesday 21 August 1787
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1862 | Page: 2 | Tags: none