...fingers conveyed it to their mouths. There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated...by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We camethither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated...

...generation. Nearly hulf a century ago, this keen observer of man remarked with regret,—' We came ' hither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar...appearance, and a system of antiquated life: the clans re' tain little now of their original character; of what they had ' before the late conquest of their...

...Nearly half a century ago; this keen observer of man remarked with regret, — ' We came ' hither <oo late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar...appearance, and a system of antiquated life: the clans re* ' tain little now of their original character; of whai tiu-y had ' before the late conquest of...

...Africa or America. Dr. Johnson went thither under the same impression. " We came thither," says he, " too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life ;" — " a longer journey than to the Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for savage...

...thereby is * Dr. Johnson remarks—" There was, perhaps, never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated...the last conquest and the subsequent laws. We came hither too late to see what we expected—a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated...

...fingers conveyed it to their mouths. There was, perhaps, never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated...their original character ; their ferocity of temper is softned, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt...

...fingers conveyed it to their mouths. There was, perhaps, never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated...and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to'see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans...

...Notwithstanding the novelties of their journey, Johnson said they had gone too late to the Hebrides to see a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life : " the Highlanders were fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."...

...last remnant of feudal times had passed with the battle of Culloden, and JOHNSON himself says — " We came thither too late to see what we expected,...appearance, and a system of antiquated life." " The Highlanders are fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."...

...they would remedy." " Never perhaps," he elsewhere adds, "was any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated...Highlands by the last conquest and the subsequent laws." True as this may be, much still remains of that system of antiquated life, characteristic of those...