There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar... The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - 250 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1811全文表示 - この書籍について
| Donald MacKay - 1996 - 282 ページ
...in the Highlands in the summer of 1773, found conditions quite different from what he had expected: "We came thither too late to see what we expected,...depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country,... | |
| Barry M. Gough - 1997 - 260 ページ
...coming to Scotland. Old relationships were being broken up; discontent and insecurity were widely felt. "We came thither too late to see what we expected,...peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life," bemoaned the celebrated traveler Dr. Samuel Johnson of his visit with James Boswell to the Hebrides... | |
| Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 ページ
...such constant attempts at escape to begin with. Waverley and the cultural politics of dispossession The clans retain little now of their original character,...depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country,... | |
| Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 ページ
...will take them in turn, devoting this chapter to the Journey and the next to the Tour. 'We came hither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life' (Journey, 46). The tour is motivated, at least for Johnson, by a desire to experience a different form... | |
| Roxann Wheeler - 2000 - 384 ページ
...quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late...peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life" (73). Appearing to compliment Scottish industry in this passage, Johnson really congratulates English... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 ページ
...manners so quick, so great, and so general . . . We came thither too late to see what we expected ... a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little...depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.72 Remarkable developments attended the post-Union decades. Early... | |
| James Buchan - 2009 - 468 ページ
...Johnson was less sure. 'We came thither too late', he concluded in the Journey to the Western Islands, 'to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.'135 The feudal lords had embraced money. 'For a pair of diamond buckles perhaps,' Adam Smith... | |
| Evan Gottlieb - 2007 - 282 ページ
...of post- '45 occupation and legislation. Indeed, his famous appraisal of his trip's belatedness — "We came thither too late to see what we expected,...peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life" (51) — should be read, not as a statement expressing disappointment at the Highlands' relative tameness,... | |
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