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... the national character of Highlanders . Every chieftain is a monarch , and polite- ness , the natural product of royal government , is diffused 1 from the laird through the whole clan . But they WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 212.
... the national character of Highlanders . Every chieftain is a monarch , and polite- ness , the natural product of royal government , is diffused 1 from the laird through the whole clan . But they WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 212.
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Samuel Johnson. from the laird through the whole clan . But they are not commonly dexterous ; their narrowness of life con- fines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We ...
Samuel Johnson. from the laird through the whole clan . But they are not commonly dexterous ; their narrowness of life con- fines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We ...
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Samuel Johnson. they had not seen such a day since the old laird of Macleod passed through their country .. The Macraes , as we heard afterwards in the Hebrides , were originally an indigent and subordinate clan , and having no farms nor ...
Samuel Johnson. they had not seen such a day since the old laird of Macleod passed through their country .. The Macraes , as we heard afterwards in the Hebrides , were originally an indigent and subordinate clan , and having no farms nor ...
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... laird's house , a neat modern fabric , and found Mr. Macleod , the proprietor of the island , with many gentlemen , expecting us on the beach . We had , as at all other places , some difficulty in landing . The crags were irregularly ...
... laird's house , a neat modern fabric , and found Mr. Macleod , the proprietor of the island , with many gentlemen , expecting us on the beach . We had , as at all other places , some difficulty in landing . The crags were irregularly ...
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... laird of Raasay . The family of Raasay consists of the laird , the la dy , three sons , and ten daughters . For the sons there is a tutor in the house , and the lady is said to be very skilful and diligent in the education of her girls ...
... laird of Raasay . The family of Raasay consists of the laird , the la dy , three sons , and ten daughters . For the sons there is a tutor in the house , and the lady is said to be very skilful and diligent in the education of her girls ...
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Page 355 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 114 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and...
Page 273 - 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.
Page 188 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties ; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Page 177 - Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master of mischief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the sounds of Liberty and Property, to repel by those of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great stroke by the name of Boston.
Page 190 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Page 230 - 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.
Page 260 - 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.
Page 114 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph.
Page 194 - ... necessity there is reason to complain. It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its Universities to moulder into dust.