A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandW. Strahan, 1775 - 384 páginas |
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... a hun- dred . Perhaps it may be fome obftruc- tion to their increase that there is no epifcopal chapel in the place . I faw no reafon reafon for imputing their paucity to the prefent profeffors ; WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . IF.
... a hun- dred . Perhaps it may be fome obftruc- tion to their increase that there is no epifcopal chapel in the place . I faw no reafon reafon for imputing their paucity to the prefent profeffors ; WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . IF.
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... increase of peo- ple and the introduction of arts . But I believe few regions have been denuded like this , where many centuries must have paffed in waste without the least thought of future fupply . Davies obferves in his account of ...
... increase of peo- ple and the introduction of arts . But I believe few regions have been denuded like this , where many centuries must have paffed in waste without the least thought of future fupply . Davies obferves in his account of ...
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... increase equal to that of better countries ; but the culture is fo operofe that they content themfelves commonly with oats ; and who can relate without compaffion , that after all their diligence they are to expect only a triple increase ...
... increase equal to that of better countries ; but the culture is fo operofe that they content themfelves commonly with oats ; and who can relate without compaffion , that after all their diligence they are to expect only a triple increase ...
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... port , but fome of his race are left behind . They have with- in these few years began to infest the isle of Col , where being left by fome trading veffel , veffel , they have increased for want of weafels to WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 189.
... port , but fome of his race are left behind . They have with- in these few years began to infest the isle of Col , where being left by fome trading veffel , veffel , they have increased for want of weafels to WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 189.
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Samuel Johnson. veffel , they have increased for want of weafels to oppose them . The inhabitants of Sky , and of the other Ilands , which I have , feen , are commonly of the middle ftature , with fewer among them very tall or very fhort ...
Samuel Johnson. veffel , they have increased for want of weafels to oppose them . The inhabitants of Sky , and of the other Ilands , which I have , feen , are commonly of the middle ftature , with fewer among them very tall or very fhort ...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by Dr Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1775 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 346 - 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. Far from me and...
Página 193 - Length of life is distributed impartially, to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the...
Página 87 - 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.
Página 106 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Página 276 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Página 383 - Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that. my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little.
Página 36 - Castle, built upon the margin of the sea, so that the walls of one of the towers seem only a continuation of a perpendicular rock, the foot of which is beaten by the waves.
Página 252 - Strong reasons for incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local, and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It is ascribed only to a people very little enlightened; and among them, for the most part, to the mean and ignorant.
Página 248 - Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which things distant or future are perceived, and seen as if they were present.
Página 254 - Boyle has been able to resist ; that sudden impressions, which the event has verified, have been felt by more than own or publish them ; that the Second Sight of the Hebrides...