The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen8William Durell, 1811 |
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... Erse is said to signify the Yellow Rock , is a double protuberance of stone , open to the main sea on one side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of ...
... Erse is said to signify the Yellow Rock , is a double protuberance of stone , open to the main sea on one side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of ...
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... Erse lan- guage . We had no motive to stay longer than to break- fast , and went forward to the house of Mr. Macaulay , the minister who published an account of St. Kilda , and by his direction visited Calder Castle , from which Mac ...
... Erse lan- guage . We had no motive to stay longer than to break- fast , and went forward to the house of Mr. Macaulay , the minister who published an account of St. Kilda , and by his direction visited Calder Castle , from which Mac ...
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... Erse language is used . There is likewise an English chapel , but meanly built , where on Sunday we saw a very decent congregation . We were now to bid farewell to the luxury of tra- velling , and to enter a country upon which perhaps ...
... Erse language is used . There is likewise an English chapel , but meanly built , where on Sunday we saw a very decent congregation . We were now to bid farewell to the luxury of tra- velling , and to enter a country upon which perhaps ...
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... Erse lan- guage , or retain the primitive manners , whether they live among the mountains or in the islands ; and in that sense I use the name , when there is not some apparent reason for making a distinction . In Sky I first observed ...
... Erse lan- guage , or retain the primitive manners , whether they live among the mountains or in the islands ; and in that sense I use the name , when there is not some apparent reason for making a distinction . In Sky I first observed ...
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... Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . I inquired the subject of the songs , and was told of one , that it was a love song , and of ...
... Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . I inquired the subject of the songs , and was told of one , that it was a love song , and of ...
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