 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws . . . Of what they [the clans] had before the late conquest of their country, there remain only their language and their poverty" (Journey, 57). THE LIVES AS /./AT I1E MEMOIRE It is out of the experience of such loss, or potential... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - 2003 - 540 σελίδες
...system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished,...poverty. Their language is attacked on every side. Given the contemporary interest in primitive man and his "state of nature," stimulated by Rousseau... | |
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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... 
