 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...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Pàgina 97per Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tobias Smollett - 1775 - 552 pàgines
...is extinguiilicd, their dignity of independence is deprefled, their conicmpt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueil: of iheir country, there remain only their language and their poverty. Their language is attacked... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pàgines
...is extinguifhed, their dignity of independence is depreffed, their contempt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty. Their language is attacked... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pàgines
...extinguiflied, their dignity of, independence' independence is deprefled, their contempt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty. Their language is attacked... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pàgines
...is extinguifhed, their dignity of independence is deprefled, their contempt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty. Their language is attacked... | |
 | John Adams - 1792 - 332 pàgines
...is extinguifhed> their dignity of independence is deprefled, their contempt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there? remain only their language and, their poverty. Their language is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...government fubdued, and their reverence, for their chiefs ablated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there remain only their language...their poverty. Their language is attacked on every fide. Schools are erected, in which EnglijIi only is taught, and there were lately fome who thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pàgines
...is extinguifhed, their dignity of independence is deprefled, their contempt of government fubdued, and their reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conqueft of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty. Their language is attacked... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pàgines
...system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character ; their ferosity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished,...country, there remain only their language and their property. Their language is attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in. which English only is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pàgines
...system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished,...attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in which E?tglisti only is taught, and there were lately some who thought it reasonable to refuse them a version... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pàgines
...system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character; their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished,...attacked on every side. Schools are erected, in which Knglish only is taught, and there were lately some who thought it reasonable to refuse them a version... | |
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