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... ( Applause . ) And yet I have often been asked by some people what use is there in knowing Gaelic , or , as they facetiously term it in their painful ignorance , “ That defunct barbarian lingo . " ( Laughter . ) But if we are to deplore ...
... ( Applause . ) And yet I have often been asked by some people what use is there in knowing Gaelic , or , as they facetiously term it in their painful ignorance , “ That defunct barbarian lingo . " ( Laughter . ) But if we are to deplore ...
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... ( Applause . ) Now , gentle men , although in the far off olden time western waves were ploughed by the fleets of the Lords of the Isles and other Island chiefs , we Highlanders cannot as a race boast of any great ex- ploits on the ocean ...
... ( Applause . ) Now , gentle men , although in the far off olden time western waves were ploughed by the fleets of the Lords of the Isles and other Island chiefs , we Highlanders cannot as a race boast of any great ex- ploits on the ocean ...
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... ( Applause . ) No , gentlemen . It was long ago said of Highlanders that they could be led , but not driven ; and we may safely assume that driven Highlanders could no more have swept the slopes of Killie- crankie , or climbed the heights ...
... ( Applause . ) No , gentlemen . It was long ago said of Highlanders that they could be led , but not driven ; and we may safely assume that driven Highlanders could no more have swept the slopes of Killie- crankie , or climbed the heights ...
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... ( Applause . ) Dr Ogilvie Grant , Surgeon to the Naval Reserve , replied for the Navy ; and Major Ross , I.A.V. , replied for the Auxiliary Forces . Mr William Mackenzie , the Secretary , then read the annual report , which reviewed the ...
... ( Applause . ) Dr Ogilvie Grant , Surgeon to the Naval Reserve , replied for the Navy ; and Major Ross , I.A.V. , replied for the Auxiliary Forces . Mr William Mackenzie , the Secretary , then read the annual report , which reviewed the ...
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... ( Applause . ) The Chairman next proposed " Success to the Gaelic Society " of Inverness . He said - I am sure you have all been gratified to learn , from the report which the Secretary has just read , that this Society is still ...
... ( Applause . ) The Chairman next proposed " Success to the Gaelic Society " of Inverness . He said - I am sure you have all been gratified to learn , from the report which the Secretary has just read , that this Society is still ...
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Página 13 - ... speech upon you, but referring shortly to other matters, I may be allowed to say how pleased I am to see you, sir, occupying that chair ; and let me say that I never heard you speaking at a gathering of this kind, but I admired the fine Celtic spirit which always pervaded your speeches. (Applause.) At the same time, I may be permitted to say that the Society ought to feel pleased that perhaps the only peer of the realm who can speak the Gaelic language correctly and fluently, holds the position...
Página 163 - Highland student, he lapsed into a " charity teacher," supported by the Society and Committee which I have mentioned. The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge had its origin in the design of a few private gentlemen, who met in Edinburgh in the year 1701, to establish charity schools in the Highlands. Their first school was started at Abertarff, which was then " the centre of a country where ignorance and popery did greatly abound " ; but the teacher was so harshly treated by the people that...
Página 212 - ur glacadh le acanan teann ; Na'm biodh uachdaran dligheach na shuidh' air 'ur ceann, Cha rachadh 'ur sgapadh gu machair nan Gall. Cha b'i mhachair bu taitnich le na Glaisich dhol ann, 'Nuair a thigeadh an samhradh, ach braighe nan gleann ; Bhiodh aran, im, agus caise, ga'n arach gun taing, Crodh-laoigh air an airidh, bliochd a's dair ann's an am. Cha 'n'eil 'n 'ur ceann-cinnidh ach duine gun treoir, Tha fo smachd nan daoin-uaisle chuireas tuathal...
Página 73 - The men are taller than the Celti, with hair less yellow; and slighter in their persons. As an instance of their height, we ourselves saw at Rome some youths who were taller by so much as half a foot than the tallest there ; but they were distorted in their lower limbs, and in other respects not symmetrical in their conformation.
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