"Highlands of scotland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sexes, but that they lay promiscuously on reeds or on heath, spread along the walls of their houses. This custom still prevails in Lapland, among the peasants of Norway, Poland, and Russia; and it is not altogether obliterated in some parts of the highlands of Scotland and Wales. ...
— Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World • Anonymous
... my father there!" said Olivia; "he would like you to be thinking that he does not care a great deal for the Highlands of Scotland." ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... with that of Portugal. To judge the Biscayan by the same standard as the Andaluz, is as sensible as it would be to compare the Irish squatter with Cornish fisher-folk, or the peasants of Wilts and Surrey with the Celtic races of the West Highlands of Scotland, or even with the people of Lancashire ...
— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street
... of our manufacturing interests, I may record that on July 1, 1892, during my absence in the Highlands of Scotland, there occurred the one really serious quarrel with our workmen in our whole history. For twenty-six years I had been actively in charge of the relations between ourselves and our men, and it was the pride of my life to think how delightfully satisfactory these had been and ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie
... Rome, in the struggle for her own existence, had been compelled to withdraw her legions from the province of Britain; and to leave the people not only to their internal dissensions, but to the attacks of the "Scots" and "Picts," from Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. Then followed the conquest of Britain by the English, as the Teutonic invaders began soon to be called. The Celtic people were largely driven out, including the Celtic Christians. The English were heathens, and the Celtic Christians seem to have made no effort whatever for their conversion. ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various
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