Memorialls for the government of the royal-burghs in Scotland with some overtures laid before the nobility and gentry of several shyres in this kingdom : as also, a survey of the city of Aberdeen with the epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon some of our chief burghs translated into English by I.B. / by Philopoliteious (or,) a lover of the publick well-fare.
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- Memorialls for the government of the royal-burghs in Scotland with some overtures laid before the nobility and gentry of several shyres in this kingdom : as also, a survey of the city of Aberdeen with the epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon some of our chief burghs translated into English by I.B. / by Philopoliteious (or,) a lover of the publick well-fare.
- Author
- Skene, Alexander.
- Publication
- Aberdeen :: Printed by John Forbes ...,
- 1685.
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- Municipal government -- Scotland.
- Scotland -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
- Aberdeen (Scotland) -- History.
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"Memorialls for the government of the royal-burghs in Scotland with some overtures laid before the nobility and gentry of several shyres in this kingdom : as also, a survey of the city of Aberdeen with the epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon some of our chief burghs translated into English by I.B. / by Philopoliteious (or,) a lover of the publick well-fare." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60328.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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Page 273
Its small in bulk; but in Its worth by far
It doth excell Towns which more greater are.
In worth smal Gemms, the biggest Rocks exceed,
The mighty Oak growes from a little Seed.
The overflowing Nilus seven-fold springs,
Are unto Men almost unknown things.
Take Cowrage then, for Tibers famous Town
Which Seas and Lands and Empires did tread down.
The Great and Mighty Rome it self (its told
Of it,) that it a Village was of old.