A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandChapman & Dodd, 1924 - 240 páginas |
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... elegance of lettered hospitality . In the morning we rose to perambulate a city which only history shows to have once flourished , and surveyed the ruins of ancient magnificence , of which even the ruins cannot long be visible , ב ...
... elegance of lettered hospitality . In the morning we rose to perambulate a city which only history shows to have once flourished , and surveyed the ruins of ancient magnificence , of which even the ruins cannot long be visible , ב ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conversation . The ground was neither uncultivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appear- } ance . I had now travelled two hundred miles 28 ...
... elegance ; for our way afforded us few topics of conversation . The ground was neither uncultivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . Of flocks or herds there was no appear- } ance . I had now travelled two hundred miles 28 ...
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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 description 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 description is of use only when ...
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... elegance and culture which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . are Here the appearance of life began to alter . I had seen a few women with plaids at Aberdeen ; but at Inverness the ...
... elegance and culture which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . are Here the appearance of life began to alter . I had seen a few women with plaids at Aberdeen ; but at Inverness the ...
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Aberdeen afford ancient appearance Armidale believe boat Boswell Boswell's called castle cattle chapel chief church clan coast Coll commodious commonly considered convenience cows curiosity danger delighted dignity distance Dunvegan easily elegance English Erse Erse language evil expected Fort Augustus gentleman goats Grissipol ground heard heath Hebrides Highlands hills honour horses hundred ignorance Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquire Inverness Iona Isle Isle of Coll Isle of Skye Johnson journey kelp labour ladies laird land lately learned less live Loch Ness Macdonald Maclean Macleod miles mind minister mountains Mull naked nation never once passed perhaps pleasure Raasay reason rent rock Scotland Scots second sight seems seen seldom Sir Allan Skye Slanes Castle sometimes standing stones stranger supplied supposed tacksman Taisch tenants thought tion told travelled trees Ulva violence wall Western Islands