Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
AN ADDRESS TO HIGHLANDERS RESPECTING THEIR NATIVE GAELIC: SHOWING ITS AND THE BROAD SCOTCH’S SUPERIORITY OVER THE ARTIFICIAL ENGLISH FOR THE FAMILY AND THE SOCIAL CIRCLE, AND ALSO FOR LYRIC POETRY.
AN ADDRESS TO HIGHLANDERS RESPECTING THEIR NATIVE GAELIC: SHOWING ITS AND THE BROAD SCOTCH’S SUPERIORITY OVER THE ARTIFICIAL ENGLISH FOR THE FAMILY AND THE SOCIAL CIRCLE, AND AL...
2. Part 2It adds greatly to the force of these epithets when used along with _mo chridhe_ (my heart), as _a ghraidh_, _a ghaoil_, _a cheist_, _eudail_, _a run_, _a luaidh mo chridhe_. An...
3. Part 3The pure English has not only committed a great havoc amongst us, both in the Highlands and Lowlands, but there is also an Englified style accompanying it in many places which i...
4. Part 4How shrewd the remark, “Give me the songs of a nation, and I care not who gives them laws.” It has been stated that the poems of the great reformer, sung to the native melodies...
5. Part 5It comes and ingratiates itself with the pride and the vanity of the higher class of society. They were too high before, but it gives them their heart’s desire, it exalts them t...