The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1909 |
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... Dunvegan late in the afternoon . The great size of the castle , which is partly old and partly new , and is built upon a rock close to the sea , while the land around it presents nothing but wild , moorish , hilly , and craggy ...
... Dunvegan late in the afternoon . The great size of the castle , which is partly old and partly new , and is built upon a rock close to the sea , while the land around it presents nothing but wild , moorish , hilly , and craggy ...
Page 185
... Dunvegan , chief of his clan , baron of Durinish , Harris , and Vaternish , & c . , united in marriage to Flora Macdonald , restored , in the year of the vulgar era , 1686 , his Tower of Dunvegan , long the very ancient abode of his ...
... Dunvegan , chief of his clan , baron of Durinish , Harris , and Vaternish , & c . , united in marriage to Flora Macdonald , restored , in the year of the vulgar era , 1686 , his Tower of Dunvegan , long the very ancient abode of his ...
Page 325
... Dunvegan . I only designed to express what I thought generally admitted - that the house of Rasay allowed the superiority of the house of Dunvegan . Even this I now find to be erroneous , and will therefore omit or retract it in the ...
... Dunvegan . I only designed to express what I thought generally admitted - that the house of Rasay allowed the superiority of the house of Dunvegan . Even this I now find to be erroneous , and will therefore omit or retract it in the ...
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Sir George Mackenzie Mr Burkes wit knowledge and elo | 18 |
Ogden on Prayer Aphoristic writing Edinburgh surveyed | 28 |
Dr Watson Literature and patronage Writing and conversation | 37 |
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