A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandLawrie & Symington, 1792 - 235 ページ |
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... clan . But they are not commonly dextrous : their narrow- nefs of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We mounted our feeds on the thirteenth of Auguft Auguft ...
... clan . But they are not commonly dextrous : their narrow- nefs of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We mounted our feeds on the thirteenth of Auguft Auguft ...
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... clans ? " Thofe , faid he , that live next the " Lowlands . " As we came hither early in the day , we had time fufficient to furvey the place . The houfe was built like other huts , of loofe ftones , but the part in which we dined and ...
... clans ? " Thofe , faid he , that live next the " Lowlands . " As we came hither early in the day , we had time fufficient to furvey the place . The houfe was built like other huts , of loofe ftones , but the part in which we dined and ...
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... clan of Macrae . Here we found a village call- ed Auknafheals , confifting of many huts , perhaps . twenty , built all of dry ftone , that is , ftones piled up without mortar . We had , by the direction of the officers at Fort Auguftus ...
... clan of Macrae . Here we found a village call- ed Auknafheals , confifting of many huts , perhaps . twenty , built all of dry ftone , that is , ftones piled up without mortar . We had , by the direction of the officers at Fort Auguftus ...
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... clan , and having no farms nor ftock , were in great numbers fervants to the Maclellans , who , in the war of Charles the Firit , took arms at the call of the heroic Montrofe , and were , in one of his battles almost all deftroyed . The ...
... clan , and having no farms nor ftock , were in great numbers fervants to the Maclellans , who , in the war of Charles the Firit , took arms at the call of the heroic Montrofe , and were , in one of his battles almost all deftroyed . The ...
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... clan might be taken in his place . This was a kind of irregular justice , which , though neceffary in fa- vage times , could hardly fail to end in a feud , and a feud once kindled among an idle people with no variety of purfuits to ...
... clan might be taken in his place . This was a kind of irregular justice , which , though neceffary in fa- vage times , could hardly fail to end in a feud , and a feud once kindled among an idle people with no variety of purfuits to ...
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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...
232 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.