A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772, Deel 1John Monk, 1776 |
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A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXXII., Volume 1 Thomas Pennant Volledige weergave - 1774 |
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Pagina 298 - ... from without, and the air within being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours .with which natural caverns in general abound. " We afked the name of it. Said our guide, the cave of Fhinn ; what is Fhinn ? faid we. Fhinn-Mac Coul, whom the tranflator of QJfian's works has called Fingal.
Pagina 298 - Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature. Where is now the boast of the architect! regularity the only part in which he fancied himself to exceed his mistress, Nature, is here found in her possession, and here it has been for ages undescribed.
Pagina 299 - The firft divifion of the ifland, for at high water it is divided into two, makes a kind of a cone, the pillars converging together towards the centre: on the...
Pagina 300 - ... figures in the upright ones never fail to run in their true directions. The surfaces upon which we walked were often flat, having neither concavity nor convexity ; the larger number, however, were concave, though some were very evidently convex.
Pagina 298 - ... in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Pagina 296 - Sylvius (afterwards Pope Pius II.) intended, when he was in Scotland, to have vifited the library in fearch of the loft books of Livy, but was prevented by the death of the King, James I, A fmall parcel of them were in 1525 brought to Aberdeent...
Pagina 298 - Is not this the school where the art was originally studied, and what had been added to this by the whole Grecian school ? a capital to ornament the column of nature, of which they could execute only a model ; and for that very capital they were obliged to a bush of acanthus. How amply does Nature repay those who study her wonderful works...
Pagina 256 - ... after a defeat, and drawing together fods, found a temporary concealment from enemies, who in early times knew not the giving or receiving of quarter. The incurfions of barbarians were always fhort ; fo that the fugitives could eafily fubfift in their earths till the danger was over.
Pagina 154 - LORD feems ftill to be worfliipped in a. (table, and often in a very wretched one. Many of the churches are thatched with heath, and in fome places are in fuch bad repair as to be half open at top ; fo that the people appear to worfhip, as the Druids did of old, in open temples.
Pagina 326 - Twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers, sit down on each side of a long board, ribbed lengthways, placing the cloth on it: first they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their hands, singing at the same...