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... reasonably be doubted . A war declared for the empty sound of an ancient title to a Magel- lanic rock , would raise the indignation of the earth • against us . These encroachers on the waste of FALKLAND'S ISLANDS . 123.
... reasonably be doubted . A war declared for the empty sound of an ancient title to a Magel- lanic rock , would raise the indignation of the earth • against us . These encroachers on the waste of FALKLAND'S ISLANDS . 123.
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... rock , under a stormy sky , we might have now been fight . ing and dying , had not our competitors been wiser than ourselves ; and those who are now courting the favour of the people by noisy professions of public spirit , would , while ...
... rock , under a stormy sky , we might have now been fight . ing and dying , had not our competitors been wiser than ourselves ; and those who are now courting the favour of the people by noisy professions of public spirit , would , while ...
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... rock covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
... rock covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
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... rock , the foot of which is beaten by the waves . To walk round the house seemed impracti- cable . From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and when the WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 223 Slanes ...
... rock , the foot of which is beaten by the waves . To walk round the house seemed impracti- cable . From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and when the WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 223 Slanes ...
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... rock has , as we were told , its body not larger than a duck's , and yet lays eggs as large as those of a goose . This bird is by the inhabitants named a coot . That which is called coot in England is here a cooter . Upon these rocks ...
... rock has , as we were told , its body not larger than a duck's , and yet lays eggs as large as those of a goose . This bird is by the inhabitants named a coot . That which is called coot in England is here a cooter . Upon these rocks ...
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Página 391 - 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.
Página 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Página 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Página 249 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Página 285 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
Página 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Página 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Página 271 - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
Página 219 - 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.
Página 177 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members...