A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Catnach, 1800 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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... covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
... covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
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... covered with fern or heath . On the right the limpid waters of Lough - Ness were beating their bank , and waving their sur- face by a gentle agitation . Beyond them were rocks sometimes covered with ver- dure , and sometimes towering in ...
... covered with fern or heath . On the right the limpid waters of Lough - Ness were beating their bank , and waving their sur- face by a gentle agitation . Beyond them were rocks sometimes covered with ver- dure , and sometimes towering in ...
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... covered with ice . In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature , the first question is , whe ther the fact be justly stated . That which is strange is delightful , and a pleasing er- ror is not willingly detected . Accuracy ...
... covered with ice . In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature , the first question is , whe ther the fact be justly stated . That which is strange is delightful , and a pleasing er- ror is not willingly detected . Accuracy ...
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... covered with heath , which makes a strong and warm thatch , kept from flying off by roaps of twisted heath , of which the ends , reaching from the centre of the thatch to the top of the wall , are held firm by the weight of a large ...
... covered with heath , which makes a strong and warm thatch , kept from flying off by roaps of twisted heath , of which the ends , reaching from the centre of the thatch to the top of the wall , are held firm by the weight of a large ...
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... covered with trees , rise at once on the left hand and in the front . We desir- ed our guides to shew us the fall , and dis- mounting clambered over very rugged craggs , till I began to wish that our curio- sity might have been ...
... covered with trees , rise at once on the left hand and in the front . We desir- ed our guides to shew us the fall , and dis- mounting clambered over very rugged craggs , till I began to wish that our curio- sity might have been ...
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Aberdeen afford Allan Maclean ancient appearance Armidel bagpipe Bamff boat Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chapel chief church clan coast commodious common commonly considered convenience coun cows curiosity danger dignity distance Dunvegan Earse easily elegance English entertained expected Fort Augustus gentleman Grissipol ground heard heath Hebrides Highlands hills honour horses hundred Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquired Inverness islands Isle journey kelp labour ladies Laird land language lately learned less live Lochbuy long con Lough-Ness Macdonald Maclean Macleod miles minister mountains Mull nation ness never once passed perhaps Raasay rent rock Scotland Scots second sight seems seen seldom sheep shew side Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes square miles standing stone stranger supplied supposed Tacksman Tacksmen tain Taisch tenants ther thought tion told travelled trees Ulva walls wind
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Стр. 205 - 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.
Стр. 186 - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they
Стр. 66 - 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.
Стр. 97 - 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.
Стр. 152 - 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.
Стр. 22 - ... 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.
Стр. 260 - 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.
Стр. 283 - 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.
Стр. 144 - 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.
Стр. 268 - Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.