A Critical Examination of Dr. Macculloch's Work on the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland

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Daniel Lizars, 1825 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 302 pages
 

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Page 26 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Page 159 - Christ immediately puts his friendship to the proof, by telling him, that the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head.
Page 198 - It includes all the ancient and modern Europeans except the Laplanders and the rest of the Finnish race ; the former and present inhabitants of Western Asia, as far as the river Ob, the Caspian Sea, and the Ganges ; that is, the Assyrians, Medes, and Chaldeans ; the Sarmatians, Scythians, and Parthians ; the Philistines, Phoenicians, Jews, and the inhabitants of Syria generally ; the...
Page 73 - I do not remember that I ever saw any other vegetable than potatoes at a real Highland table" He admits that there are some few exceptions ; but he distinctly avers that these are to be found " on the borders of the Lowlands, or in the hands of low country tenants, or under some peculiar circumstances of accident, WITHOUT AFFECTING THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE." Now, let us examine a little, in detail, this admirable and unique piece of information. 1.
Page 35 - It's a fine day."—" Aye, it's a fine day for your hay." — " Ah ! there's no muckle hay ; this is an unco cauld glen." — " I suppose this is the road to Killin," (trying him on another tack). — " That's an unco fat beast of yours." — " Yes, she is much too fat; she is just from grass.
Page 87 - Na — I might gang and speer myself if I likit." — Good Highland civility, this ; particularly to your landlord's friend.— But Mrs. Nicholson said she cared not a baubee for my Lord nor his friends neither. I was obliged to go and look after the ferryboat myself. When I came there, there was a boat, it is true ; but the ferryman was at Church, five miles off, on the other side of the water ; he would probably be back by twelve o'clock, or two, or three, or not at all. When I returned to Mrs....
Page 161 - Turkish maxim, that to sit is better than to stand, to lie is better than to sit, to sleep is better than to wake, and death is best of all !" Yet it is wonderful how " a true philosopher," like Donald, may be " contaminated" by example, and moulded by kindness.
Page 294 - We found, on enquiry, that, having been ejected from their farm, and having no other resource, they had been suffered by a neighbouring farmer to build their hut from his woods and to graze their only cow upon his waste ; and thus, with the assistance of the shell fish which they caught at low water, and some casual labour, they had contrived to live through that portion of the summer which was past. How the winter was to be surmounted, it was both too easy and too painful to imagine.
Page 102 - Cal lander, you may ring the bell forty times in a quarter of an hour, or else for a quarter of an hour at one time : it is pretty much the same. At Luss, you wait four hours for your dinner, the cloth being laid ; and if there be any bread, you have devoured it all before the dinner arrives. When it does, it consists of herrings which might have been cooked in ten minutes, and of mutton which was cooked yesterday. Unless indeed the time has been more justifiably expended in killing the sheep. At...
Page 217 - More by friends* fraud my fall proceeded hath, Than foes ; though now they thrice decreed my death. On my attempt though Providence did frown, His oppressed people God at length shall own. Another hand by more successful speed, Shall raise the remnant, bruise the serpent's head.

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