 | 1820 - 774 דפים
...Africa or America. Dr. Johnson went thither under the same impression. " We came thither," says he, " too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life ;" — " a longer journey than to the Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for savage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 דפים
...national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came...independence is depressed, their contempt of government is subdued, and their reverence for thenchiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 דפים
...national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came...their original character ; their ferocity of temper is softned, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 דפים
...national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to'see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 דפים
...Notwithstanding the novelties of their journey, Johnson said they had gone too late to the Hebrides to see a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life : " the Highlanders were fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 דפים
...last remnant of feudal times had passed with the battle of Culloden, and JOHNSON himself says — " We came thither too late to see what we expected,...appearance, and a system of antiquated life." " The Highlanders are fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 דפים
...national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came...expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of_ antiquated life_, The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper... | |
 | Günther Blaicher - 1987 - 386 דפים
...14 J. Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland (Dublin, 1771), 197. We came thither too late to see what we expected,...of peculiar appearance, and a System of antiquated fife. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened,... | |
 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 דפים
...national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came...depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country,... | |
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There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar... 
