This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...been identified with justice, fair-play, and honour. (Cheers.) Not only that, but he is ready at all times to interest himself in whatever is going on in Glasgow, to make himself useful in every way that he can to act the role of a most genial fellow-citizen. It was with great sorrow that we heard of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...been identified with justice, fair-play, and honour. (Cheers.) Not only that, but he is ready at all times to interest himself in whatever is going on in Glasgow, to make himself useful in every way that he can to act the role of a most genial fellow-citizen. It was with great sorrow that we heard of his recent serious accident, but we all rejoice to see him here in the full bloom of health, and to know that he has been able to take part in the interesting Municipal festival of to-day. (Cheers.) I have only now to ask you to honour those who represent the law and the sovereignty in this country--to honour those whom her most gracious Majesty has been pleased to honour. (Cheers.) Sheriff Clark--Ladies and Gentlemen, my Lord Provost of Glasgow, --I need not tell you that the greatest pleasure I know in life is to address a Glasgow audience, and during the whole time of my Sheriffship I do not think I have ever had the honour of addressing a more representative audience of Glasgow citizens than upon this occasion. (Cheers.) I regret that those gentlemen whose names are coupled with this toast and precede mine are unable to attend. I have reason to know that they regret their absence. I regret it also myself, for I am certain that in their hands the toast which has been so ably proposed and so fervently drunk would have been better responded to than it can be in my hands. (" No.") The persons whose names are introduced into the toast represent historical character as far as we like to go almost, even to the mediaeval or feudal ages. There was here a lordlieutenant of the county, and there was a sheriff, and somewhat later there was a convener of the county. Although those men had their deputies, they did in old times their duty towards Glasgow...
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