Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: To which are Added, Translations from the Gaelic, and Letters Connected with Those Formerly Published, 2. kötetLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 366 oldal |
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... observations which I have hazarded in the foregoing essays will , I am sensible , appear to many pa- radoxical and visionary ; but the poeti- cal records compared with existing tra- VOL . II . A ditions and manner , and the general ha ...
... observations which I have hazarded in the foregoing essays will , I am sensible , appear to many pa- radoxical and visionary ; but the poeti- cal records compared with existing tra- VOL . II . A ditions and manner , and the general ha ...
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... observation of life , when applied to their modes of thinking and acting . I do not speak now of the views which the light of science enables us to take , but of that fluctuation in modes of apparel , habits of civility , & c . which we ...
... observation of life , when applied to their modes of thinking and acting . I do not speak now of the views which the light of science enables us to take , but of that fluctuation in modes of apparel , habits of civility , & c . which we ...
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... observations that have floated down the current of time , from their wise , witty , and courteous ancestry , was open to all , like the sa- ered writings to our Scottish peasantry ; and the highland muses sung in the same language to ...
... observations that have floated down the current of time , from their wise , witty , and courteous ancestry , was open to all , like the sa- ered writings to our Scottish peasantry ; and the highland muses sung in the same language to ...
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... observation , skilled in affairs , versant in business , and rich in inherited experience . He loves to ar- gue and deliberate ; and gives import- ance to the merest trifles , to find scope for his address and sagacity . He likes to ...
... observation , skilled in affairs , versant in business , and rich in inherited experience . He loves to ar- gue and deliberate ; and gives import- ance to the merest trifles , to find scope for his address and sagacity . He likes to ...
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... observe , that the transgres- sion was partial , the culprits being the inhabitants of one single parish . These , in a hasty skirmish with a neighbouring clan , thought discretion the best part of valour , and sought safety in retreat ...
... observe , that the transgres- sion was partial , the culprits being the inhabitants of one single parish . These , in a hasty skirmish with a neighbouring clan , thought discretion the best part of valour , and sought safety in retreat ...
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Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: To Which Are ... Anne MacVicar Grant Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
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affection ancient bagpipe band of brothers bard beauty bhalli called cattle chace character chearfulness chief Chro clan Clan Grant Colin common Craig Guanich cultivated dear death deep sorrow deer delight drink elegant endeavour enthusiasm equal faculties faithful fancy feelings fidelity friends Gaelic Gaelic language Glenroy glens grace Grampians habits heart hero highland honour hunter ignorance imagination instance kind Laggan language LETTER linne na chris live Loch Laggan Lochaber Macgregor manner means melan ment mind mode mountains mournful muse narchs native nature neighbours never opinions Ossian patronymic peculiar person poem poet poetical poetry polished preserve quaich racter regard rock sadness sagacity Scotland song soul spirit stag stile Strath Strathspey suppose taste tender thing thou thought tion tivated tive translation truth ture Upper Canada valour VERSE voice Whig wild wonted Woodend
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324. oldal - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
336. oldal - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
82. oldal - Valley" will not bear a comparison with the " Hall of Eblis." BRIDE OF ABYDOS, A TURKISH TALE. " Hart we never loved so kindly, " Had we never loved so blindly, " Never met or never parted, " We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
72. oldal - But know that in the Soul Are many lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aery shapes, Which Reason joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
217. oldal - The Favilteach, or three first days of February, serve many poetical purposes in the Highlands. They are said to have been borrowed for some purpose by February from January, who was bribed by February with three young sheep. These three days, by Highland reckoning, occur between the llth and 15th of February; and it is accounted a most favorable prognostic for the ensuing year, that they should be as stormy as possible.
53. oldal - After divine service they were all marched three times round the church, in presence of their offended leader and his assembled clan. Each individual, on coming out of the church door, was obliged to draw out his tongue with his fingers, and then cry audibly, ' Sudam bleidire 'theich' ie, 'This is the poltroon who fled,' and to repeat it at every corner of the church.
139. oldal - They were treated with the most cruel indignity, and fed upon a very sparing portion of unwholesome rice, which operated as a slow poison, assisted by the burning heat of the sun by day, and the unwholesome dews of night, to which they were purposely exposed to shake their constancy. Daily some of their companions dropped before their eyes, and daily they were offered liberty and...
141. oldal - It was not theirs to meet death in the field of honour, while the mind, wrought up with fervid eagerness, went forth in search of him. They saw his slow approach, and though sunk into languid debility, such as quenches the fire of mere temperament, they never once hesitated at the alternative set before them.
191. oldal - Upon inquiry it was found that the poor man had crawled out on his hands and knees between the sentinels, followed the party at some distance till he thought they were approaching the place of assault, and then again crept in the same manner on the ground beside his master, that he might be near him unobserved.
139. oldal - ... in exchange for this lingering torture, on condition of relinquishing their religion and taking the turban. Yet not one could be prevailed upon to purchase life on these terms. These Highlanders were...