 | 1812 - 560 pages
...had never seen any thing finer, and who supposed his own chief to be the first of human beings; and this chief, though possessed of little more knowledge...clan. Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent that a Highland Chief was an ignorant and unprincipled tyrant, 24 SELECT REVIEWS OF LITERATUKE. who... | |
 | David Stewart - Clans - 1822 - 658 pages
...vices, and in their bosoms the high point of honour without its follies." * " Nothing (says Mrs Grant) can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea that...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 558 pages
...music."— Journey to the Western '-lands. \ Stewart's Sketches, i. 40, &c — Dalrymple's Memoirs. " can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea, that...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | A. Young - English poetry - 1876 - 278 pages
...Ramble in the North Highlands, p. 222. 3 " Where are thy trusty clans and chieftains now?" — Page 1g. Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition or weak in understanding, he wag curbed and directed by the elders of his... | |
 | David Stewart - Highlands (Scotland) - 1885 - 442 pages
...vices, and in their bosoms the high point of honour without its follies."* " Nothing," says Mrs Grant, " can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea that...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | Lord Archibald Campbell - Clans - 1890 - 84 pages
...oppresses his people. This notion is " extremely fallacious. Nothing," says Mrs Grant, * Logan. 35 "can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea that...his " followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppres" sion. " If ferocious in disposition, or weak in under" standing, he was curbed and directed... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1892 - 506 pages
...has been written in defence and condemnation of the system, and we find Mrs Grant of Laggan writing, "Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1892 - 402 pages
...has been written in defence and condemnation of the system, and we find Mrs Grant of Laggan writing, "Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | Celts - 1892 - 900 pages
...has been written in defence and condemnation of the system, and we find Mrs Grant of Laggan writing, "Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent...followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak in understanding, he was curbed and directed by the elders of... | |
 | Alexander Hubert Alphons Conrady - Clans - 1898 - 96 pages
...bei Skene, C. Sc. III 378 ff. a Mrs. Ann Grant, Superstitions of the Highlanders (bei Stewart, I 50): „Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent...unprincipled tyrant, who rewarded the abject submission of bis followers with relentless cruelty aud rigorous suppression. If ferocious in disposition , or weak... | |
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Nothing can be more erroneous than the prevalent idea that a Highland chief was an ignorant and unprincipled tyrant, who rewarded the abject submission of his followers with relentless cruelty and rigorous oppression. If ferocious in disposition, or weak... 
