A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI. |
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Page lxxv
... improvement recommended in the publication , and for other matters worthy of their attention . The Highland Society at London had been established several years before : it was partly a convivial club , who met to enjoy them- felves ...
... improvement recommended in the publication , and for other matters worthy of their attention . The Highland Society at London had been established several years before : it was partly a convivial club , who met to enjoy them- felves ...
Page lxxxvi
... improvement , and act a part suitably to the circumstances of his fituation . By thus blending private benefit , with the general good , the names of fuch proprietors who fhall , with a liberal hand , come forward , and at at an early ...
... improvement , and act a part suitably to the circumstances of his fituation . By thus blending private benefit , with the general good , the names of fuch proprietors who fhall , with a liberal hand , come forward , and at at an early ...
Page cviii
... improvements , fully answer the great ends propofed by it . Fifty acres is there mentioned as the lowest quantity of ground that will be wanted ; but , where there is a fufficiency of arable or im- provcable land , it would be expedient ...
... improvements , fully answer the great ends propofed by it . Fifty acres is there mentioned as the lowest quantity of ground that will be wanted ; but , where there is a fufficiency of arable or im- provcable land , it would be expedient ...
Page cxiii
... improvement propofed by the Society ; to accomplish which , it must have the means within itself . It fhould be in- habited in its origin by fome men of property , knowledge , industry , and perfeverance ; with a proportionable number ...
... improvement propofed by the Society ; to accomplish which , it must have the means within itself . It fhould be in- habited in its origin by fome men of property , knowledge , industry , and perfeverance ; with a proportionable number ...
Page cliii
... improvements in agriculture and manufactures in the nor- thern parts of Scotland , and the ifles . Perfons of abilities , knowledge , or experience , have been difcouraged from attempting any pur- fuits in which this almoft prohibited ...
... improvements in agriculture and manufactures in the nor- thern parts of Scotland , and the ifles . Perfons of abilities , knowledge , or experience , have been difcouraged from attempting any pur- fuits in which this almoft prohibited ...
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Page 1 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Page 108 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Page 26 - In, Length of the cave from the rock without - 371 6...
Page 21 - ... of folid unformed rock, above thefe, the ftratum which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies...
Page 21 - Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature.
Page 22 - Hill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without ; fo that the fartheft extremity is very plainly feen from without, and the air within being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound.
Page 21 - ... arrived than we were struck with a scene of magnificence which exceeded our expectations...
Page 34 - ... as if the fabric of the world had been in great diforder. He did not think there had been fo many people in the world as in the city of Glafgow ; and it was a great myftery to him to think what they could all defign by living fo many in one place.
Page 62 - ... from the whole, though he often thinks proper to deny it to particulars ; yet this partial failure (for which we fee no natural...
Page 35 - ... with iron nails, he could not forbear laughing, and thought it the most ridiculous thing that ever fell under his observation. He longed to see his native country again, and passionately wished it were blessed with ale, brandy, tobacco, and iron, as Glasgow was.