 | James Paterson - 1847 - 490 ページ
...but other gentlemen of the same family are denominated by the places where they reside, as Raasa, or Talisker. The distinction of the meaner people is made by their Christian names. In consequence of tins practice, the late Laird of Macfarlane. an eminent genealogist, considered himself as disrespectfully... | |
 | 1863 - 182 ページ
...but other gentlemen of the same family are denominated by the places where they reside, as Raasa, or Talisker. The distinction of the meaner people is...genealogist, considered ' himself as disrespectfully 1 Hist. Co. of Ayr, ii. 233. treated, if the common addition was applied to him. ' Mr. Macfarlane,'... | |
 | James Paterson - 1866 - 318 ページ
...but other gentlemen of the same family are denominated by the places where they reside, as Raasa, or Talisker. The distinction of the meaner people is...said to many ; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane." Dunlop of that Ilk, or The Dunlop, are the same import. witnesses to the grant by the Abbot and Convent... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1925 - 260 ページ
...father in 1705. Dr. Johnson writes of him in his Tour to the Hebrides, ' The late laird of Macfarlan, an eminent genealogist, considered himself as disrespectfully treated if the common addition [ie Mr.] was applied to him. " Mr. Macfarlan, "said he, "may with equal propriety be said to many;... | |
 | Bettina Arnold, D. Blair Gibson - 1995 - 176 ページ
...century, they reveal many individual tenants as identified by a patronymic. As Samuel Johnson put it, the "distinction of the meaner people is made by their Christian names" (Johnson 1971 edition: 153). Most individuals were identified through their ties across two or three... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 330 ページ
...but other gentlemen of the same family are denominated by the places where they reside, as Raasa, or Talisker. The distinction of the meaner people is...Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane. Our afternoon journey was through a country of such... | |
 | Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society - 1919 - 262 ページ
...Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1st ed., 1775, p. 358):— "The late Laird of Maefarlane. an eminent genealogist, considered himself as disrespectfully treated if the common addition (Mr) was applied to him. ' Mr Maefarlane.' said he, ' may with equal propriety be said to many ; but... | |
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Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane. 
