A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandW. Strahan, 1775 - 384 ページ |
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... told , has been made to convert it into a kind of green - house , by planting its area with fhrubs . This new method of gardening is unfuccefs- ful ; the plants do not hitherto prosper . To what use it will next be put I have no ...
... told , has been made to convert it into a kind of green - house , by planting its area with fhrubs . This new method of gardening is unfuccefs- ful ; the plants do not hitherto prosper . To what use it will next be put I have no ...
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... told Mr. Boswell that when there were perfons of quality in the place , she was diftinguished by fome notice ; that indeed fhe is now neglected , but fhe fpins a thread , has the company company of her cat , and is troublesome to nobody ...
... told Mr. Boswell that when there were perfons of quality in the place , she was diftinguished by fome notice ; that indeed fhe is now neglected , but fhe fpins a thread , has the company company of her cat , and is troublesome to nobody ...
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... told him that it was rough and low , or looked as if I thought fo . This , faid he , is nothing to another a few miles off . I was ftill lefs delighted to hear that another tree was not to be feen nearer . Nay , faid a gentleman 2 ...
... told him that it was rough and low , or looked as if I thought fo . This , faid he , is nothing to another a few miles off . I was ftill lefs delighted to hear that another tree was not to be feen nearer . Nay , faid a gentleman 2 ...
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... told that the inhabitants fometimes climbed it , but we did not immediately discern the entrance , and as the night was gathering upon us , thought proper to defift . Men fkilled in architec- ture might do what we did not attempt : They ...
... told that the inhabitants fometimes climbed it , but we did not immediately discern the entrance , and as the night was gathering upon us , thought proper to defift . Men fkilled in architec- ture might do what we did not attempt : They ...
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... told , improperly , from the caftle of that name , which once stood at a place not far diftant . The road beyond Aberdeen grew more ftony , and continued equally naked of all vegetable decoration . We travelled over a tract of ground ...
... told , improperly , from the caftle of that name , which once stood at a place not far diftant . The road beyond Aberdeen grew more ftony , and continued equally naked of all vegetable decoration . We travelled over a tract of ground ...
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346 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...
193 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...
87 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.
106 ページ - 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.
276 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 inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
383 ページ - Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that. my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little.
36 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.
252 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.
248 ページ - Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present.
254 ページ - Boyle has been able to resist ; that sudden impressions, which the event has verified, have been felt by more than own or publish them ; that the Second Sight of the Hebrides...