Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route: With a Trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides. Containing Hints for Improvements in Agriculture and Commerce. With Characters and Anecdotes. Embellished with Views of Striking Objects, and a Map, Including the Caledonian Canal, Volumen2J. Johnson, 1807 - 622 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Aberdeen animals appearance astonishing attention Bamff banks beautiful Bothwell Castle Bressay Sound burgh Caithness Caledonian canal called Cape Wrath carried Castle cattle church clergy clergyman coast colour dressed Duff House earl earl of Fife Edinburgh elegant England excellent expense farmers farms feet fish Fochabers Fort Augustus fowls gentleman Glasgow ground hand handsome happened head heath Highlands hills horses hundred improved inhabitants Inverness islands kind ladies laird land late live Loch London lord magpies married miles mountains Murray nearly notwithstanding observed Orkneys parish Peterhead places poor Portsoy pounds sterling proprietors river river Deveron river Spey road rock scarcely Scot Scotch Scotland seems seen servants sheep Shetland Shetland Isles shew side situated sometimes Spey stone tenants thing thousand pounds tion town trees twenty wife winter woman wood young
Pasajes populares
Página 556 - Neither is it any quantity of knowledge how great soever that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can fill, much less extend, the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God; and therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing...
Página 369 - I observed two magpies hopping round a gooseberry bush, in a small garden, near a poor-looking house, in a peculiar manner, and flying out and into the bush. I stepped aside to see what they were doing, and found, from the poor man and his wife, that...
Página 428 - I have seen more than twenty men plying with good cudgels, yet unable to separate a number of dogs fighting in a church. Nay, so much trouble do dogs give in some churches, that there is one appointed to go through the church-yard with a kind of longhandled forceps, which he holds out before him, and with which he wounds the tails, legs, and ears, &c. of the dogs, and thereby keeps the church and church-yard clear of these useful, but totally unnecessary animals in a place of public worship. Indeed,...
Página 517 - Paul exhorts his converts not to be filled with wine, wherein is excess, but to be filled with the spirit. The people in the Orkney and Shet-» land Islands, perhaps, misinterpret this text. As I saw many of the people...
Página 426 - The poor man's cheese, his bread, &c. was nearly expended ; he, therefore, on the one side of the river, and the clergyman on the other, consulting what was to be done, agreed that the child should be brought to the river side; that the father, presenting the child, should take on the vows, as they term it, and the minister with a scoop, or Dutch ladle, should throw over the water: which was done, though with difficulty, owing to the breadth of the river; after which, the clergyman pronounced the...
Página 378 - He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.
Página 389 - There was a stone within a few yards of it, about six feet long, and nearly as broad, and upon this stone almost constantly, but always when they had young, the gentleman and his...
Página 600 - ... at Dover, the dog jumped overboard, and swimming ashore, ran off as fast as he could. The collar on his neck told to whom he belonged ; and, in less than six weeks from the time he had left Rome, this faithful animal arrived at his master's house at Edinburgh. This brings to my mind the dog belonging to a gentleman in Aberdeen, which, ran about half a...
Página 462 - ... the medicine. This gentleman, having an appeal to the house of peers, about a large estate, was at London ; and, as he gained the process, and was about to return to Scotland, he bought some gallons of castor oil, to lie at his house, and be served out as occasion should require.
Página 370 - ... the hen immediately followed, and having rescued the chicken, brought it safely down in her beak; and it was remarked that the poor little bird, though it made a great noise while the Magpie was carrying it up, was quite quiet, and seemed to feel no pain, while its mother was carrying it down.