The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1825-1841R.Carruthees [i.e.Carruthers], 1907 |
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The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century (Volume II) 1825-1841 James Barron Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2000 |
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Сторінка 60 - Nay, he, on his own part, would go further, and say that he had never read or heard of any measure up to the present moment which could in any degree satisfy his mind that the state of the representation could be improved or be rendered more satisfactory to the country at large than at the present moment.
Сторінка 53 - ... of my power, indiscriminately all objects of distress that come in my way. My earthly king's son commands me to drive the homeless wanderer from my door, to shut my bowels of compassion against the cries of the needy, and to withhold from my fellow-mortals in distress the relief which it is in my power to afford. Pray, which of these commands am I to obey ?" To this, the Duke (in the words of the late Mr.
Сторінка 87 - I was at home when I had the dream, in the month of February. It was said to me in my sleep, by a voice like a man's, that the pack was lying in such a place. I got a sight of the place, just as if I had been awake. I never saw the place before. The voice said in Gaelic — " The pack of the merchant is lying in a cairn of stones, in a hole near their house.
Сторінка 52 - ... inclination, that it is an incentive to philanthropy. There is a certain poetic ground on which a man cannot tread without feelings that enlarge the heart ; the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes; and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by, the air of the climate.
Сторінка xxxix - Essay on the State of Society and Knowledge in the Highlands of Scotland, particularly in the Northern Counties, at the period of the Rebellion in 1745...
Сторінка 276 - ... circumstances, and although his measures were conceived in no illiberal spirit, his Ministry had a very short lease of power. After sustaining a defeat on the election of Speaker, a more serious disaster befell the Government on the Irish Church question. Lord John Russell introduced, on the 30th of March, his resolution, ' That the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole House to consider of the temporalities of the Church of Ireland.
Сторінка 88 - We found nothing there. We went to search on the south side of the burn. I had not seen this place in my dream. It was not far from the place seen in my dream that the things were found. There were five silk handkerchiefs lying in a hole.
Сторінка xliv - Eraser, a labourer, and Peter Cameron, a weaver) were found dead, the former near Cuidrash and the latter near Ardedrean, in the hill between Urquhart and the Aird ; a woman and her son, a boy of fifteen years of age, were likewise found dead at Duntemple, near the Church of Boleskine, and within 200 yards of their own door. Thus there is the certainty of eleven persons at least having perished that evening. A tailor of the name of Fraser, from Garnabeg, in Urquhart, left Abriachan on Friday for...
Сторінка 60 - Spencer came into office as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons...
Сторінка xxxix - End (formerly a publichouse about two miles east from Forres), arrived about an hour after the sentence had been executed, with, among other official despatches, a reprieve for the poor fellow. The spot where the skeleton was found was generally called the " Sodger's Grave ;" and there arc two or three of the inhabitants who remember the day on which he was shot.