 That their poverty is gradually abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will, by degrees, make them industrious. Such is the effect of the late regulations,...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Σελίδα 69των Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 208 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will by degrees make them industrious." Proceeding in their journey, by the way of Auknasheals and Glenelg, our Travellers, on the 20th of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will by degrees...by him whose curiosity pants for savage virtues and _barbarous grandeur. E 2 RAASAY. RAASA Y. At the first intermission of the stormy weather we were informed,... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1927 - 436 σελίδες
...abated cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will, by degrees,...Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for the savage virtues and barbarous grandeur." Johnson's enthusiasm for things that have their roots in... | |
 | Günther Blaicher - 1987 - 386 σελίδες
...reverence for their chiefs abated. . . . Such is the effect of the late regulations, that a larger journey than to the Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for savage virtue, and barbarous grandeur.15 Aus den Worten "dignity of independence", "savage virtue", "barbarous... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 σελίδες
...abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will by degrees...curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur. (Pp. 57-58) The only way out is to move forward: the improvement of the region depends not only on... | |
 | Roxann Wheeler - 2000 - 388 σελίδες
...abated, cannot be mentioned among the unpleasing consequences of subjection. They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will by degrees...curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur" (7374). His sentiment about the possibility of gam from a more commercially oriented Scotland exactly... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 σελίδες
...Scottish Highlands because they have been gradually turning toward commerce. "They are now acquainted with money, and the possibility of gain will by degrees...whose curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur."82 Although Johnson ridiculed those who "pant" for savage virtues, he did not altogether... | |
 | Curtis Neil Runnels, Priscilla Murray - 2001 - 218 σελίδες
...the eighteenth century, Dr. Johnson noted the gradual disappearance of traditional ways and remarked that "a longer journey than to the Highlands must...pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur." An age of savage virtues and barbarous grandeur strikes us as a fit description of the Aegean Bronze... | |
 | Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs - 2002 - 360 σελίδες
...and Boswell concluded that they had arrived too late, that change and decline were already advanced: 'A longer journey than to the Highlands must be taken...whose curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur.''5 Other travellers, led by William Gilpin, journeyed to these kinds of places - Scotland,... | |
 | Nick Frost - 2005 - 392 σελίδες
...ignoble savages among the lairds, tacksmen and tenants with whom he stayed. Somewhat sourly, he remarks that 'a longer journey than to the Highlands must...curiosity pants for savage virtues and barbarous grandeur, (p. 90). Literature and travellers' tales continued to draw visitors to Scotland in search of savage... | |
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