Transactions, Том 29The Society, 1922 List of members in each vol. |
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Страница 77 - Hence the Highlanders, whom more savage nations called savage, carried in the outward expression of their manners the politeness of courts without their vices; and, in their bosoms, the high point of honour, without its follies.
Страница 296 - There is one in Skie, of whom his acquaintance observed, that when he sees a vision, the inner part of his eyelids turns so far upwards, that after the object disappears he must draw them down with his fingers, and sometimes employs others to draw them down, which he finds to be the much easier way.
Страница 11 - Latin document— sj short that I shall give you a complete translation of it: —'' William King of Scots to all good men of his whole realm, greeting. Know ye both present and to come that we have granted and given, and by this my present charter have confirmed to Orm, son of Hugh, Glenduogin and Balemadethin by their right meiths, to be held by him and his heirs of me and my heirs freely quietly and honourably from all service saving my service which belongs to that land, as Earl Duncan quitclaimed...
Страница 18 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Страница 135 - Its history is itself only one long lament; it still recalls its exiles, its flights across the seas. If at times it seems to be cheerful, a tear is not slow to glisten behind its smile; it does not know that strange forgetfulness of human conditions and destinies which is called gaiety. Its songs of joy end as elegies; there is nothing to equal the delicious sadness of its national melodies.
Страница 296 - ... else, except the vision, as long as it continues; and then they appear pensive or jovial, according to the object which was represented to them.
Страница 8 - Christianitie, the Lord Bishop and Brethren foresaid ordains that the ordinary crowding multitude of profane and idle persons be debarred, and that none frequent or countenance these meetings but those of the defunct's nearest relatives, or those that may be useful for Christian counsel and comfort to the mourners and afflicted, discharging strictlie all light and lascivious exercises, sports, lyksongs, fiddling, and dancing, and that any present at such occasions behave themselves gravely, Christianly,...
Страница 297 - ... and reason. Besides, if the seers were deceivers, can it be reasonable to imagine that all the islanders who have not the...
Страница 149 - Skye from this house, sitting before me, he looked up seriously and swore to me that as he should answer to God and wished that God might never have mercy on him and that he might never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but that his bones might...
Страница 14 - In respect that a universal hardship is imposed on the Gentlemen and Tenants of this Countrie [ie, Glen-Urquhart] by the hired men and servants both mail and women, and this is represented to the Judge; the same is to be enacted in the manner following : — That any servant who can properly provide his master in all the materials necessary for a labouring man is to have ten merks [equal to...