A Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in General: And Some Learned Characters, in Particular with a New and Satisfactory Account of the Picts, Scots, Fingal, Ossian, and His Poems : as Also of the Macs, Clans, Bodotria, and Several Other Particulars Respecting the High Antiquities of ScotlandJ. Egerton, 1794 - 286 Seiten |
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A Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in General: And Some Learned Characters ... Reverend John Lane Buchanan Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 236 - ... and drawn by a team perhaps of twenty or thirty oxen. The flocks and herds, after grazing all day in the adjacent pastures, retire, on the approach of night, within the protection of the camp.
Seite 249 - ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices...
Seite 83 - Celtic cattle (continues this author) emigrated fome cen" turies ago, how happy had it been for that country ! All we " can do is to plant colonies among them, and by encouraging " emigration, try to get quit of the breed. The Celts are " mere favages, moft tenacious of their fpeech and manners*.
Seite 27 - Scotch emigrations from any other country; and an able hiftorian remarks on this head, that all fuch emigrations which have been aflerted, or received by Irifh bards, Scotch...
Seite 93 - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
Seite 21 - They have, fays he, gotten a method of changing names " to tickle the ear, and carry the word glibber off the " tongue ; but our people neither allow, nor pradife " any fuch thing. The Greeks have turned Noe into No'" chos ; but we keep to the fame form and fyllables, " without varying the termination.
Seite 47 - Greek, and not lefs fuitable to poetry than the modern Italian. Things of foreign or of late invention, may not, probably, have obtained names in the Gaelic language; but every object of nature, and every inftrument of...
Seite 81 - Doctor, therefore, has exhibited this fpecimen of his rancour to no other purpofe, than either to gratify the prejudiced, or to impofe upon the weak and credulous. If any thing can be inferred from what he fays, it is only this, that he himfelf is not fo " very fturdy a moralift" as to love truth fo much as he hates Scotland.
Seite 185 - This firedius, in the reign of king Ederus, about fifty-four years before our Saviour's nativity, with an army of his islanders, entered Morvern, and the other western continent, which having with great barbarity depopulated, he was in his return met by king Ederus, with an army, and entirely defeated. Bredius hardly escaping, by absconding himself in a cave, was thence termed Bredius, or Gillebreid of the cave. However, after the kings departure he obtained new forces, by which he obliged the inhabitants...
Seite 80 - The indelicacy of fuch language is obvious. A gentleman would not have exprefled himfelf in that manner* for his own fake ; a man of prudence would not have done it, for fear of giving juft offence to Mr. Macpherfon. But the Doctor feems to have been carelefs about the reputation of the firft of thofe characters; and the malignity of his difpofition feems to have made him overlook the forefight generally annexed to the fecond. Though he was bold...