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He told Macgil , one of his followers , that if he intercepted that dangerous
intelligence , by catching the courier , he would give him certain Jands in Mull .
Upon this promise , Macgill purfued the meffenger , and either killed , or stopped
him ...
He told Macgil , one of his followers , that if he intercepted that dangerous
intelligence , by catching the courier , he would give him certain Jands in Mull .
Upon this promise , Macgill purfued the meffenger , and either killed , or stopped
him ...
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The terms of fosterage feem to vary in different islands . In Mull the father fends
with his child a certain number of cows , to which the fame number is added by
the fosterer . The father appropriates a proportionable extent of ground , without
rent ...
The terms of fosterage feem to vary in different islands . In Mull the father fends
with his child a certain number of cows , to which the fame number is added by
the fosterer . The father appropriates a proportionable extent of ground , without
rent ...
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levied upon our necessities , the master agreed to carry us to Mull , whence we
might readily pals back to Scotland . MUL L. As we were to catch the first
favourable breath , we spent the night not very elegantly , nor pleasantly , in the
vessel ...
levied upon our necessities , the master agreed to carry us to Mull , whence we
might readily pals back to Scotland . MUL L. As we were to catch the first
favourable breath , we spent the night not very elegantly , nor pleasantly , in the
vessel ...
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removed with her father to Mull , added to other qualifications , a great knowledge
of the Earse language , which she had not learned in her childhood , but gained
by study , and was the only interpreter of the Earfe poetry that I could ever find .
removed with her father to Mull , added to other qualifications , a great knowledge
of the Earse language , which she had not learned in her childhood , but gained
by study , and was the only interpreter of the Earfe poetry that I could ever find .
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Mull'is said to contain fix thousand , and Sky fifteen thousand . Of the computation
refpecting Mull , I can give no account ; but when I doubted the truth of the
numbers -1 numbers attributed to Sky , one of the ministers exhibited WESTERN
...
Mull'is said to contain fix thousand , and Sky fifteen thousand . Of the computation
refpecting Mull , I can give no account ; but when I doubted the truth of the
numbers -1 numbers attributed to Sky , one of the ministers exhibited WESTERN
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afford ages ancient appearance becauſe believe better boat built called caſtle cattle chief church clan common commonly conſidered continued convenience covered danger eaſily elegance Engliſh equal expected fame firſt fome formed give given greater ground hand heard Hebrides Highlands hills himſelf horſes houſe hundred ignorance improvement inhabitants iſlands journey knowledge known labour ladies Laird land language laſt lately learned leſs live longer Maclean manners miles mind miniſter moſt mountains Mull muſt natural never once perhaps preſent probably produce raiſed reaſon remains rent road rock ſaid ſaw Scotland ſea ſeems ſeen ſhould ſmall ſome ſtanding ſtate ſtill ſtone ſuch ſupplied ſuppoſed tenants themſelves ther theſe thing thoſe thought tion told travelled trees uſe viſit wall whole whoſe wind young
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210 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...
153 ページ - Those who profess to feel it do not boast of it as a privilege, nor are considered by others as advantageously distinguished. They have no temptation to feign ; and their hearers have no motive to encourage the imposture.
105 ページ - Whatever is imaged in the wildest tale, if giants, dragons, and enchantment be excepted, would be felt by him, who, wandering in the mountains without a guide, or upon the sea without a pilot, should be carried, amidst his terror and uncertainty, to the hospitality and elegance of Raasay or Dunvegan.
89 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.
152 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.
197 ページ - But there is a frightful interval between the seed and timber. He that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness of life driven hard upon him. He knows that he is doing what will never benefit himself; and when he rejoices to see the stem rise, is disposed to repine that another shall cut it down.
155 ページ - ... one generation of ignorance effaces the whole series of unwritten history. Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.
153 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...
234 ページ - It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities capable of fo much help: whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage ; after having feen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides?
50 ページ - Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.