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Established custom is not easily broken , till some great event shakes the whole
system of things , and life seems to recommence upon new principles . That
before the Union the Scots had little trade and little money , is no valid apolo . gy ;
for ...
Established custom is not easily broken , till some great event shakes the whole
system of things , and life seems to recommence upon new principles . That
before the Union the Scots had little trade and little money , is no valid apolo . gy ;
for ...
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It will easily occur that these representations may both be true , and that , in some
places , men may buy them , and in others , make them for themselves ; but I had
both the accounts in the same house within two days . Many of my subsequent ...
It will easily occur that these representations may both be true , and that , in some
places , men may buy them , and in others , make them for themselves ; but I had
both the accounts in the same house within two days . Many of my subsequent ...
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fore not studious of nice accommodations , But I know not whether , for niany
ages , it was not considered as a part of military policy , to keep the country not
easily ac . cessible . The rocks are natural fortifications , and an enemy climbing
with ...
fore not studious of nice accommodations , But I know not whether , for niany
ages , it was not considered as a part of military policy , to keep the country not
easily ac . cessible . The rocks are natural fortifications , and an enemy climbing
with ...
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... up by manual labour , with an instrument called a crooked spade , of a form
and weight which to me appeared very incommodious , and would perhaps
besoon improved in a country where workmen could be easily found and easily
paid .
... up by manual labour , with an instrument called a crooked spade , of a form
and weight which to me appeared very incommodious , and would perhaps
besoon improved in a country where workmen could be easily found and easily
paid .
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A penny is easily given upon the first impulse of compassion , or impatience of
importunity ; but few will deliberately search their cupboards or their granaries to
find out something to give . A penny is likewise easily spent ; but victuals , if they ...
A penny is easily given upon the first impulse of compassion , or impatience of
importunity ; but few will deliberately search their cupboards or their granaries to
find out something to give . A penny is likewise easily spent ; but victuals , if they ...
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afford ages ancient appearance believe better boat buildings built called castle cattle chief church clan common commonly considered continued convenience conversation covered danger desire distance easily elegance English equal expected give given greater ground hand heard Highlands hills horses hundred ignorance improvement inhabitants islands journey kind knowledge known labour ladies Laird land language lately learned less live longer Maclean Macleod manners miles mind minister mountains Mull natural necessary never observed once passed perhaps present probably produce Raasay raised reason remains rent road rock Scotland seems seen shillings side sometimes soon standing stone sufficient supplied supposed taken tenants ther thing thought tion told travelled trees true walls whole wind young
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205 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.
186 ページ - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they
66 ページ - 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.
97 ページ - 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.
152 ページ - 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.
22 ページ - ... 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.
260 ページ - 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.
283 ページ - 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.
144 ページ - 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.
268 ページ - Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.