A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandT. Cadell, 1816 - 208 páginas |
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... Hebrides , or Western Islands of Scotland , so long that I scarcely re- member how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey , by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion , whose ...
... Hebrides , or Western Islands of Scotland , so long that I scarcely re- member how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey , by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion , whose ...
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... Hebrides , were originally an indigent and subor- dinate clan , and having no farms nor stock , were in great numbers servants to the Maclellans , who , in the war of Charles the First , took arms at the call of the heroic Montrose ...
... Hebrides , were originally an indigent and subor- dinate clan , and having no farms nor stock , were in great numbers servants to the Maclellans , who , in the war of Charles the First , took arms at the call of the heroic Montrose ...
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... the state of Britain , and deserves attention ; be- cause it proves that the present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of nature . As we sat at Sir Alexander's table , we were 58 A JOURNEY TO THE SKY. ARMIDEL. ...
... the state of Britain , and deserves attention ; be- cause it proves that the present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of nature . As we sat at Sir Alexander's table , we were 58 A JOURNEY TO THE SKY. ARMIDEL. ...
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... Hebrides consists of little more than rain and wind . As they are surrounded by an ocean never frozen , the blasts that come to them over the water are too much softened to have the power of congelation . The salt loughs , or inlets of ...
... Hebrides consists of little more than rain and wind . As they are surrounded by an ocean never frozen , the blasts that come to them over the water are too much softened to have the power of congelation . The salt loughs , or inlets of ...
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... Hebrides , has im- proved his delicacy more than his manhood . Their fowls are not like those plumped for sale by the poulterers of London , but they are as good as other places commonly afford , except that the geese , by feeding in ...
... Hebrides , has im- proved his delicacy more than his manhood . Their fowls are not like those plumped for sale by the poulterers of London , but they are as good as other places commonly afford , except that the geese , by feeding in ...
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Aberdeen afford Allan Maclean ancient appearance Armidel bagpipe Bamff believe boat Boethius Boswell built called castle cattle chapel chief church clan coast commodious commonly considered convenience cows curiosity danger dignity distance domestick Dunvegan Earse easily elegance English expected Fort Augustus gentleman Grissipol ground heard heath Hebrides Hebridians Highlands hills honour horses hundred ignorance Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquire Inverness islands isle journey kelp labour lady laird land language lately learned less live Lochbuy Lough Ness Macdonald Maclean Macleod Maclonich miles minister mountains Mull naked nation never once passed perhaps pleasure plenty publick Raasay reason rent rock Scotland Scots Second Sight seems seen seldom Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes square miles standing stone stranger supplied supposed tacksmen Taisch Talisker tenants thought tion told travelled trees Ulva violence wall wind
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Página 187 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible...
Página 123 - ... they were collected are of vast extent, and without much exuberance of people great armies may be raised where every man is a soldier. But their true numbers were never known, Those who were conquered by them are their historians, and shame may have excited them to say, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guess ; and when numbers are guessed, they are always magnified.
Página 165 - British crown; for a nation scattered in the boundless regions of America resembles rays diverging from a focus. All the rays remain, but the heat is gone. Their power consisted in their concentration : when they are dispersed, they have no effect.
Página 57 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Página 188 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 69 - That their poverty is gradually abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will, by degrees, make them industrious. Such is the effect of the late regulations, that a longer journey than to the Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur.
Página 204 - Men bred in the Universities of Scotland cannot be expected to be often decorated with the splendours of ornamental erudition, but they obtain a mediocrity of knowledge, between learning and ignorance, not inadequate to the purposes of common life, which is, I believe, very widely diffused among them, and which, countenanced in general by a national combination so invidious that their friends cannot defend it, and actuated in particulars by a spirit of enterprise so vigorous that their enemies are...
Página 24 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay: they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
Página 187 - 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.
Página 69 - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. 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 the reverence for their chiefs abated.