A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland)W. Blackwood and sons, 1897 - 376 pàgines Maps on two folded leaves in pockets. Library's copy lacks one map. |
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A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland) James Cameron Lees Previsualització no disponible - 2012 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 231 - my boast that I was the first Minister who looked for and found it in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men, who had gone nigh to have overturned the State in the war before
Pàgina 222 - 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.
Pàgina 231 - had gone nigh to have overturned the State in the war before last. These men in the last war were brought to combat on your side, and fought with valour and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Pàgina 195 - instinct should frame them To loyalty unlearned, honour untaught, Civility not seen from others ; valour That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop As if it had been sowed.
Pàgina 223 - The stranger whose money buys him preference considers himself as paying for all that he has, and is indifferent about the laird's honour or safety. The commodiousness of money is indeed great, but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
Pàgina 223 - can have little authority among men taught to pay reverence only to birth, and who regard the tacksman as their hereditary superior. Nor can the steward have equal zeal for the prosperity of an estate profitable only to the laird with the tacksman who has the laird's income involved in his own.
Pàgina 220 - ranged for the most part with some tendency to circularity. It must be placed where the wind cannot act upon it with violence, because it has no cement; and where the water will run easily away, because it has no floor but the naked ground.
Pàgina 198 - I am sorry to leave this country in the condition it is in; for all the good that we have done has been a little blood-letting, which has only weakened the madness but not cured it, and I tremble for fear that this vile spot may still be the ruin of this island and of our family.
Pàgina 166 - out of the buckle; a plain hat with a canvas string, having one end fixed to one of his coat buttons. He had black stockings, and brass buckles in his shoes. At the first appearance of this pleasing youth,