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life , as to suppose four and forty shillings a year , an honourable stipend ; yet it
was probably equal , not only to the needs , but to the rank of Boethius . The
wealth of England was undoubtedly to that of Scotland more than five to one ,
and it is ...
life , as to suppose four and forty shillings a year , an honourable stipend ; yet it
was probably equal , not only to the needs , but to the rank of Boethius . The
wealth of England was undoubtedly to that of Scotland more than five to one ,
and it is ...
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... by them for the chase . Man is by the use of fire - arms made so much an
overmatch for other animals , that in all countries , where they are in use , the wild
part of the creation sensibly diminishes . There will probably not be long either
stags ...
... by them for the chase . Man is by the use of fire - arms made so much an
overmatch for other animals , that in all countries , where they are in use , the wild
part of the creation sensibly diminishes . There will probably not be long either
stags ...
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They are probably content with such accommodations as stones of different forms
and sizes can afford them . . Their food is not better than their lodge ing . They
seldom taste the flesh of land animals ; for here are no markets . What cach man
...
They are probably content with such accommodations as stones of different forms
and sizes can afford them . . Their food is not better than their lodge ing . They
seldom taste the flesh of land animals ; for here are no markets . What cach man
...
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I have no reason to sup . pose it exactly known at what time the custom ceased ,
nor did it probably cease in all houses at once . But whenever the practice of
recitation was disused , the works , whether poetical or historical , pe . rished with
the ...
I have no reason to sup . pose it exactly known at what time the custom ceased ,
nor did it probably cease in all houses at once . But whenever the practice of
recitation was disused , the works , whether poetical or historical , pe . rished with
the ...
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The payment of rent in kind has been so long disused in England , that it is totalJy
forgotten . It was practised very lately in the Hebrides , and probably still
continues , not only in St Kilda , where money is not yet known , but in others of
the ...
The payment of rent in kind has been so long disused in England , that it is totalJy
forgotten . It was practised very lately in the Hebrides , and probably still
continues , not only in St Kilda , where money is not yet known , but in others of
the ...
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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.