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... winds beat with violence must enjoy all the ter- rific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms , whether wished or not , will sometimes happen , I may say , without violation of ...
... winds beat with violence must enjoy all the ter- rific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean . I would not for my amusement wish for a storm ; but as storms , whether wished or not , will sometimes happen , I may say , without violation of ...
Page 48
... winds which have more power to agitate than congeal ; or it is kept in per petual motion by the rush of streams from the rocks that inclose it . Its pro- fundity , though it should be such as is re- presented , can have little part in ...
... winds which have more power to agitate than congeal ; or it is kept in per petual motion by the rush of streams from the rocks that inclose it . Its pro- fundity , though it should be such as is re- presented , can have little part in ...
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... wind cannot act upon it with violence , because it has no cement ; and where the water will run easily away , be- cause it has no floor but the naked ground . The wall , which is commonly about six feet high , declines from the ...
... wind cannot act upon it with violence , because it has no cement ; and where the water will run easily away , be- cause it has no floor but the naked ground . The wall , which is commonly about six feet high , declines from the ...
Page 70
... wind among the steeps , nor where the bog has firmness to sustain them ; be- sides that , mountaineers have an agility in climbing and descending , distinct from strength or courage , and attainable only by use . If the war be not soon ...
... wind among the steeps , nor where the bog has firmness to sustain them ; be- sides that , mountaineers have an agility in climbing and descending , distinct from strength or courage , and attainable only by use . If the war be not soon ...
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... wind . As they are surrounded by an ocean never frozen , the blasts that come to them over the water are too much softened to have the power of congelation . The salt loughs , or inlets of the sea , which shoot very far into the island ...
... wind . As they are surrounded by an ocean never frozen , the blasts that come to them over the water are too much softened to have the power of congelation . The salt loughs , or inlets of the sea , which shoot very far into the island ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 268 - Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said 300 to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.