A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Catnach, 1800 - 288 páginas |
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... appearance that it would have made , if it had been placed at the same distance from London , with the same facility of approach ; with what emulation of price a few rocky acres would have been purchased , and with what expensive ...
... appearance that it would have made , if it had been placed at the same distance from London , with the same facility of approach ; with what emulation of price a few rocky acres would have been purchased , and with what expensive ...
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... appearance . A square apartment of great loftiness is yet stand- ing , its use I could not conjecture , as its e- levation was very disproportionate to its area . Two corner towers particularly at- tracted our attent on . Mr Boswell ...
... appearance . A square apartment of great loftiness is yet stand- ing , its use I could not conjecture , as its e- levation was very disproportionate to its area . Two corner towers particularly at- tracted our attent on . Mr Boswell ...
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... appearances . The country is still naked , the fences are of stone , and the fields so generally plowed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till them . The harvest , which was almost ripe , ap- peared ...
... appearances . The country is still naked , the fences are of stone , and the fields so generally plowed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till them . The harvest , which was almost ripe , ap- peared ...
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... appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . The edge of the Buller is not wide , and to those that walk round , appears very narrow . He that ven- tures to look downward , sees , that if his foot should slip , he must fall from his ...
... appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . The edge of the Buller is not wide , and to those that walk round , appears very narrow . He that ven- tures to look downward , sees , that if his foot should slip , he must fall from his ...
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... few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appearance . I had now travelled twe hundred miles in WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 31.
... few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appearance . I had now travelled twe hundred miles in WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 31.
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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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Página 205 - 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.
Página 186 - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they
Página 66 - 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.
Página 97 - 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.
Página 152 - 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.
Página 22 - ... 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.
Página 260 - 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 283 - 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.
Página 144 - 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.
Página 268 - Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.