A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandA. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1791 - 384 ページ |
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... from Montrofe exhibited a continuation of the fame appearances . The country is ftill naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields fo generally plowed that $ The that it is hard to imagine where grafs is 22 A JOURNEY TO THE.
... from Montrofe exhibited a continuation of the fame appearances . The country is ftill naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields fo generally plowed that $ The that it is hard to imagine where grafs is 22 A JOURNEY TO THE.
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... stone was wanted , afterwards demolished . Elgin feems a place of little trade , and thinly inhabited . The epifcopal cities of Scotland , I believe , generally fell with their churches , though fome of them have fince recovered by a ...
... stone was wanted , afterwards demolished . Elgin feems a place of little trade , and thinly inhabited . The epifcopal cities of Scotland , I believe , generally fell with their churches , though fome of them have fince recovered by a ...
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... stones , they do not exclude Brogues were formerly made of raw hides , with the hair inwards , and fuch are perhaps ftill used in rude and re- mote parts ; but they are faid not to last above two days . Where life is somewhat improved ...
... stones , they do not exclude Brogues were formerly made of raw hides , with the hair inwards , and fuch are perhaps ftill used in rude and re- mote parts ; but they are faid not to last above two days . Where life is somewhat improved ...
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... stones is , I believe , a northern cuftom , and to burn the body was the Roman practice ; nor do I know when it was that these two acts of fepulture were united . The weather was next day too violent for the continuation of our journey ...
... stones is , I believe , a northern cuftom , and to burn the body was the Roman practice ; nor do I know when it was that these two acts of fepulture were united . The weather was next day too violent for the continuation of our journey ...
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... stone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up . The people call them Elf - bolts , and believe that the fairies fhoot them at the cattle . They nearly resemble those which Mr. Banks has lately brought from the favage ...
... stone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up . The people call them Elf - bolts , and believe that the fairies fhoot them at the cattle . They nearly resemble those which Mr. Banks has lately brought from the favage ...
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220 ページ - Strong reasons for incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local, and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It is ascribed only to a people very little enlightened; and among them, for the most part, to the mean and ignorant.
196 ページ - To soften the obdurate, to convince the mistaken, to mollify the resentful, are worthy of a statesman ; but it affords a legislator little self-applause to consider, that where there was formerly an insurrection, there is now a...
6 ページ - Beatoun is said to have had workmen employed in improving its fortifications, at the time when he was murdered by the ruffians of reformation, in the manner of which Knox has given what he himself calls a merry narrative.
73 ページ - 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.
58 ページ - This hole is not directly over the fire, lest the rain should extinguish it; and the smoke therefore naturally fills the place before it escapes.
72 ページ - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. 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.
129 ページ - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
241 ページ - It would be easy to shew it if he had it ; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has...
37 ページ - Castle, built upon the margin of the sea, so that the walls of one of the towers seem only a continuation of a perpendicular rock, the foot of which is beaten by the waves. To walk round the house seemed impracticable. From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean.
169 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 Lowlands, where I...