A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Catnach, 1800 - 288페이지 |
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... continued because it had begun . Established custom is not easily broken , till some great event shakes the whole system of things , and life seems to recommence upon new principles . That before the Union the Scots had little trade and ...
... continued because it had begun . Established custom is not easily broken , till some great event shakes the whole system of things , and life seems to recommence upon new principles . That before the Union the Scots had little trade and ...
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... continued equally naked of all vegetable decoration . We travelled over a tract of ground near the sea , which , not long ago , suffered a very uncommon , and unexpected calamity . The sand of the shore was raised by a tempest in such ...
... continued equally naked of all vegetable decoration . We travelled over a tract of ground near the sea , which , not long ago , suffered a very uncommon , and unexpected calamity . The sand of the shore was raised by a tempest in such ...
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... continued our jour ney , pleased with our reception at Slanes Castle , of which we had now leisure to re- count the grandeur and the elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated ...
... continued our jour ney , pleased with our reception at Slanes Castle , of which we had now leisure to re- count the grandeur and the elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated ...
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... continued in the old city . FORES . CALDER . FORTGEORGE . WE went forwards the same day to Fo- res , the town to which Macbeth was tra- velling , when he met the weird sisters in his way . This to an Englishman is clas- sic ground . Our ...
... continued in the old city . FORES . CALDER . FORTGEORGE . WE went forwards the same day to Fo- res , the town to which Macbeth was tra- velling , when he met the weird sisters in his way . This to an Englishman is clas- sic ground . Our ...
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... continued our journey along the side of a lough , kept full by many streams , which with more or less rapidity and noise crossed the road from the hills on the other hand . These currents , in their diminished state , after several dry ...
... continued our journey along the side of a lough , kept full by many streams , which with more or less rapidity and noise crossed the road from the hills on the other hand . These currents , in their diminished state , after several dry ...
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Aberdeen afford Allan Maclean ancient appearance Armidel bagpipe Bamff boat Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chapel chief church clan coast commodious common commonly considered convenience coun cows curiosity danger dignity distance Dunvegan Earse easily elegance English entertained expected Fort Augustus gentleman Grissipol ground heard heath Hebrides Highlands hills honour horses hundred Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquired Inverness islands Isle journey kelp labour ladies Laird land language lately learned less live Lochbuy long con Lough-Ness Macdonald Maclean Macleod miles minister mountains Mull nation ness never once passed perhaps Raasay rent rock Scotland Scots second sight seems seen seldom sheep shew side Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes square miles standing stone stranger supplied supposed Tacksman Tacksmen tain Taisch tenants ther thought tion told travelled trees Ulva walls wind
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205 페이지 - I suppose my opinion of the poems of Ossian is already discovered. I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could shew the original; nor can it be shewn by any other; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
186 페이지 - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they
66 페이지 - I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
97 페이지 - The clans retain little now of their original character ; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country, there remain 'only their language and their poverty.
152 페이지 - To banish, the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an expeditious mode of husbandry ; but that abundance, which there is nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness. As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labour.
22 페이지 - ... barbarity. His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
260 페이지 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
283 페이지 - The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now and then from an old lady.
144 페이지 - To expand the human face to its full perfection, it seems necessary that the mind should cooperate by placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority.
268 페이지 - Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.