A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Catnach, 1800 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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... the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness , and entertained with all the elegance of letter ed hospitality . In the morning we rose to perambulate a city , 6 A JOURNEY TO THE St ANDREWS. ...
... the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness , and entertained with all the elegance of letter ed hospitality . In the morning we rose to perambulate a city , 6 A JOURNEY TO THE St ANDREWS. ...
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... elegance and vigour , but his fabulousness and credulity are justly bla- med . His fabulousness , if he was the au- ther of the fictions , is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age , when ...
... elegance and vigour , but his fabulousness and credulity are justly bla- med . His fabulousness , if he was the au- ther of the fictions , is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age , when ...
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... elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appearance . I had now travelled twe hundred miles in ...
... elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conver sation . The ground was neither uncul tivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appearance . I had now travelled twe hundred miles in ...
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... elegance of conversation as left us no attention to the delicacies of his table . Of Fort George I shall not attempt to give any account . I cannot delineate it scientifically , and a loose and popular de- scription is of use only when ...
... elegance of conversation as left us no attention to the delicacies of his table . Of Fort George I shall not attempt to give any account . I cannot delineate it scientifically , and a loose and popular de- scription is of use only when ...
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... so easy was so long delayed . But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . Here WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 43.
... so easy was so long delayed . But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . Here WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 43.
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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.