 We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with. honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1773 - Side 90af Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 239 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 sider
...be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features', gentle manner*, and elegant presence. In the morning we sent our horses...and spared ourselves part of the day's fatigue, by crossing.an arm of the sea. We had at last some difficulty in coming to Dtfnvegan ; for our way led... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 sider
...here he landed at Port Re. We were entertained with Ihe usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald*, a name that will be mentioned...presence. In the morning we sent our horses round a pro. montory to meet us, and spared ourselves part of the day's fatigue, by crossing an arm of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 sider
...courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft feajures, gentle manners, and elegant presence. In the morning we sent our horses round a prdmontary to meet us, and spared ourselves part of the day's fatigue, by crossing an arm of the sea.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 572 sider
...when he landed at Port Re. We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned...by crossing an arm of the sea. We had at last some diffiQulty in coming to Dunvegan; for our way led over an extensive moor, where every step was to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 sider
...when he landed at Port Re. We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence. VOL. VIII. U In the morning we sent our horses round a promontory to meet us, and spared ourselves... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 sider
...Islands, 1773, Dr John-ion rays, " We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr MacDonald, and his lady Flora MacDonald, a name that will be mentioned...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence ;" and in a letter to Mrs Thrale he adds, " here I had the honour of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 sider
...Islands, 1773, Dr Johnson says, " We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr MacDonald, ;uid his lady Flora MacDonald, a name that will be mentioned...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence ;" and in a letter to Mrs Thrale he adds, " here I had the honour of saluting the far-famed Miss Flora... | |
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...mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. — " She was a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." So wrote Johnson. The above confused description embraces the names of most of the Kingsburgh family,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 sider
...be mentioned in history, and, it courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour." He adds, " she is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence" — a picture the more remarkable, when it is recollected that she was now fifty-three yeais of age.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 310 sider
...Western Islands, he says, " We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned...soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." And again, Dr. Johnson writes to Mrs. Thrale ; — " Here I had the honour of saThat here he lived,... | |
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