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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
agus Alasdair Alban Alexander the Second Alexander the Third Angus appears Argyll barony bishop Buchan Caithness called callit Celtic century charter chief church Clann Colla Colla Uais connection consisted Cormac cows Crown daughter David Davoch descended districts Domhnall Donald Duncan earl of Atholl earl of Fife earl of Lennox earl of Ross Earl of Stratherne earldom Eoin Erinn father feudal Fife Finé Firth Flath Fordun formed Gaelic Gaelic population Galloway Geilfine genealogies grants heirs held Highland Innsigall Ireland Irish islands Isles John king kingdom Lennox likewise Lord Malcolm Malise merk land mhic Moray Mormaer Mormaer of Moray Norwegian Orkney pedigree Pictish Picts ploughgate possession province race Reginald reign of Alexander Saxon Scone Scotland Scots Scottish sept seven Somerled sons Stratherne tenants termed territory thair thairof thanage thane Toisech tribe Tuath Tuogh Ulster Welsh William the Lion
Populaire passages
Pagina 454 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Pagina 454 - The Afghaun's most ordinary mode of divination is by examining the marks in the blade-bone of a sheep, held up to the light ; and even so the Rev. Mr Robert Kirk assures us, that in his time, the end of the sixteenth century, " the seers prognosticate many future events (only for a month's space) from the shoulder-bone of a sheep on which a knife never came. By looking into the bone, they will tell if whoredom be committed in the owner's house ; what money the master of the sheep had ; if any will...
Pagina 322 - The ordinary Highlanders esteem it the most sublime Degree of Virtue to love their Chief, and pay him a blind Obedience, although it be in Opposition to the Government, the Laws of the Kingdom, or even to the Law of God.
Pagina 322 - Next to this love of their chief is that of the particular branch , from whence they sprang, and, in a third degree, to those of the whole clan or name, whom they will assist, right or wrong, against those of any other tribe with which they are at variance.
Pagina 323 - Possession of their Ancestors. . . . The Chief exercises an arbitrary Authority over his Vassals, determines all Differences and Disputes that happen among them, and levies Taxes upon extraordinary Occasions, such as the Marriage of a Daughter, building a House, or some Pretence for his Support and the Honour of the Name. And if any one should refuse to contribute to the best of his Ability he is sure of severe Treatment, and if he...
Pagina 305 - Highlanders and people of the islands, on the other hand, are a savage and untamed nation, rude and independent, given to rapine, ease-loving, of a docile and warm disposition, comely in person, but unsightly in dress, hostile to the English people and language, and, owing to diversity of speech, even to their own nation, and exceedingly cruel.
Pagina 316 - This, by the means of a small portion, and the liberality of their relations, they are able to stock, and which they, their children and grandchildren, possess at an easy rent, till a nearer descendant be again preferred to it. As the propinquity removes, they become less considered, till at last they degenerate to be of the common people; unless some accidental acquisition of wealth supports them above their station. As this hath been an ancient custom, most of the formers and cottars are of the...
Pagina 322 - And, lastly, they have an adherence one to another as Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands in old times were the possessions of their ancestors. " The chief exercises an arbitrary authority over his vassals, determines all...