The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland: Comprehending the Most Celebrated Modern Tours in the British Islands, and Several Originals, Volumen2R. Phillips, 1809 |
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... river which makes the celebrated Fall of Fiers . The country at the bridge strikes the imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of Siberian solitude . The way makes a flexure , and the mountains , covered with trees , rise at once on ...
... river which makes the celebrated Fall of Fiers . The country at the bridge strikes the imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of Siberian solitude . The way makes a flexure , and the mountains , covered with trees , rise at once on ...
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... river having now no water but what the springs supply , shewed us only a swift current , clear and shallow , fretting over the asperities of the rocky bottom , and we were left to exercise our thoughts , by endeavouring to con- ceive ...
... river having now no water but what the springs supply , shewed us only a swift current , clear and shallow , fretting over the asperities of the rocky bottom , and we were left to exercise our thoughts , by endeavouring to con- ceive ...
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... river . But this country , however it may delight the gazer or amuse the naturalist , is of no great advantage to its owners . Immense tracks of land are still let for very trifling sums , though often raised beyond its intrinsic value ...
... river . But this country , however it may delight the gazer or amuse the naturalist , is of no great advantage to its owners . Immense tracks of land are still let for very trifling sums , though often raised beyond its intrinsic value ...
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... rivers and rivulets , which com- monly ran with a clear shallow stream , over a hard pebbly bottom . These channels , which seem so much wider than the water that they convey would naturally require , are formed by the violence of ...
... rivers and rivulets , which com- monly ran with a clear shallow stream , over a hard pebbly bottom . These channels , which seem so much wider than the water that they convey would naturally require , are formed by the violence of ...
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... river broad and shallow like the rest ; but , that it may be passed when it is deeper , there is a bridge over it . yond it is a valley , called Glensheals , inhabited by the clan of Macrae . Here we found a village , called ...
... river broad and shallow like the rest ; but , that it may be passed when it is deeper , there is a bridge over it . yond it is a valley , called Glensheals , inhabited by the clan of Macrae . Here we found a village , called ...
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Página 133 - ... 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 from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
Página 98 - By pretension to Second Sight, no profit was ever sought or gained. It is an involuntary affection, in which neither hope nor fear are known to have any part. Those who profess to feel it do not boast of it as a privilege, nor. are considered by others as advantageously distinguished. They have no temptation to feign ; and their hearers have no motive to encourage the imposture.
Página 132 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Página 106 - The editor, or author, never could shew the original ; nor can it be shewn by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
Página 33 - I presented her with a book, which I happened to have about me, and should not be pleased to think that she forgets me. In the evening the...
Página 36 - The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shews him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.
Página 54 - The clans retain little now of their original character ; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty.
Página 54 - Their language is attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in which English only is taught, and there were lately some who thought it reasonable to refuse them a version of the holy scriptures, that they might have no monument of their mother tongue.
Página 36 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.
Página 45 - 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.