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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1775
- Pages
- Pages 180
Among the ruins on Iona, Samuel Johnson wrote that the man whose piety did not grow warmer there was little to be envied, and the whole book leans toward that moment. He was in his sixties, blind in one eye, and famous for despising Scotland, and he rode and sailed for months through the Highlands to Skye, Raasay, Coll and Mull, in weather that would have broken younger men.
That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon
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