 | Sir John Sinclair - 1799 - 820 страници
...inhabitant* were ignorant of letters;, and almoft unci" viKaed:; that, there were no ptfrfonata be found fit to- preach " the word of God to the people, or to admmiftcr the fa" erttnents of tlte church -T and befidts, that the country was " fo mterfc£bei4 wkh.... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 512 страници
...inhabitants were ignorant of letters, and almost uncivilized; that there were no persons to be found fit to preach the word of God to the people, or to administer the sacraments of the church; and besides, that the country was so intersected with mountains and arms of the sea, so distant from the... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 520 страници
...inhabitants were ignorant of letters, and almost uncivilized ; that there were no persons to be found fit to preach the word of God to the people, or to administer the sacraments of the church; and besides, that the country was so intersected with mountains and arms of the sea, so distant from the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 страници
...Highlands were ignorant of letters and almost uncivilised ; that there were no persons to be found fit to preach the Word of God to the people, or to administer the sacraments of the Church ; and besides that, the country was so intersected with mountains and arms of the sea, and so distant from... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1904 - 312 страници
...gold medals ; but he migrated to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1837, when he was twenty. Aberdeen ns Aberdeen IT is a little startling to ordinary persons,...privileges of those already existing institutions. The 117 result was a "Bull," obtained in 1490, and the ratification of it in the Scottish Parliament ten... | |
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... presence of the chapter assembled. The king, in his letter to the pope, gave a most deplorable account of the barbarous state, at that time, of the north or highlands of Scotland. He stated " that the inhabitants were ignorant of letters, and almost... 