A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandStanhope Press, 1817 - 504 ページ |
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... 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 18 ...
... 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 18 ...
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... written in the Roman cha- racter with nicety and beauty , which , as the art of printing has made them no longer necessary , are not now to be found . This was one of the latest performances of the transcribers , for Areti- nus died but ...
... written in the Roman cha- racter with nicety and beauty , which , as the art of printing has made them no longer necessary , are not now to be found . This was one of the latest performances of the transcribers , for Areti- nus died but ...
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... writing , and therefore are never communicated but with hesi- tation , and a little fear of abasement and con- tempt . But it must be remembered , that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions , or elegant enjoyments ; the ...
... writing , and therefore are never communicated but with hesi- tation , and a little fear of abasement and con- tempt . But it must be remembered , that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions , or elegant enjoyments ; the ...
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... written , signed by the conspirators , and placed in the hands of one Macleod . It happened that Macleod had sold some cat- tle to a drover , who , not having ready money , gave him a bond for payment . The debt was discharged , and the ...
... written , signed by the conspirators , and placed in the hands of one Macleod . It happened that Macleod had sold some cat- tle to a drover , who , not having ready money , gave him a bond for payment . The debt was discharged , and the ...
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... Written learning is a fixed luminary , which , af- ter the cloud that had hidden it has past away , is again bright in its proper station . Tradition is but a meteor , which , if once it falls , cannot be rekindled . It seems to be ...
... Written learning is a fixed luminary , which , af- ter the cloud that had hidden it has past away , is again bright in its proper station . Tradition is but a meteor , which , if once it falls , cannot be rekindled . It seems to be ...
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439 ページ - 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.
194 ページ - The inhabitants are fifty-eight families, who continued papists for some time after the laird became a protestant. Their adherence to their old religion was strengthened by the countenance of the laird's sister, a zealous Romanist, till one Sunday as they were going to mass under the conduct of their patroness, Maclean met them on the way, gave one of them a blow on the head with a yellow stick, I suppose a cane, for which the Earse had no name, and drove them to the kirk, from which they have never...
228 ページ - 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...
201 ページ - 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.
207 ページ - The father appropriates a proportionable extent of ground, without rent, for their pasturage. If every cow brings a calf, half belongs to the fosterer, and half to the child ; but if there be only one calf between two cows, it is the child's, and when the child returns to the parents, it is accompanied by all the cows given, both by the father and by the fosterer, with half of the increase of the stock by propagation. These beasts...
128 ページ - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the...
179 ページ - 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.
181 ページ - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity,. will not be very diligent to detect it.
212 ページ - All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
70 ページ - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows: "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.