 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - Social Science - 1805 - 318 pages
...extract may not perhaps be unacceptable. ( The Highlanders are divided into tribes, or clans, un' der chiefs or chieftains, as they are called in the laws...deduce their original from their particular chieftains; e and rely upon them as their more immediate protectors e and defenders. * But, for' better distinction,... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 394 pages
...disorderly state of the Highlands of Scotland. [From the same MS.] 355—370. LETTERS, &c. LETTER XIX. THE Highlanders are divided into tribes, or clans, under...the main stock, who have chieftains over them. These * Long after the art of government had been so far improved, that tranquillity was maintained and justice... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1837 - 330 pages
...quoting the passage. " The Highlanders are divided into tribes or clans, under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan again divided into branches from the...as their more immediate protectors and defenders. The ordinary Highlanders esteem it the most sublime degree of virtue to love their chief and pay him... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 532 pages
...fidelity. " The Highlanders are divided into tribes or clans, under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan is again divided into branches from the main stock, who...as their more immediate protectors and defenders. The ordinary Highlanders esteem it the most sublime degree of virtue to love their chief and pay him... | |
 | Sir John Scott Keltie - Clans - 1875 - 302 pages
...quoted in ch. xlii., but may with advantage be again introduced here. chieftains. and each clan is again divided into branches from the main stock, who...as their more immediate protectors and defenders. The ordinary Highlanders esteem it the most sublime degree of virtue to love their chief and pay him... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1875 - 454 pages
...They (the Highlanders) are divided into tribes or clans under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan is again divided into branches from the main stock, who...deduce their original from their particular chieftains. (Quoted by Skene, ' Highlanders,' ip 156.) Such a body, as I have already stated, seems to be the Joint... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1875 - 458 pages
...into tribes or clans under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan is again divided into branches 1'rom the main stock, who have chieftains over them. These...deduce their original from their particular chieftains. (Quoted by Skene, ' Highlanders,' ip 156.) Such a body, as 1 have already stated, seems to be the Joint... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...Highlanders,' it says, 'are divided into tribes or clans, under chiefs or chieftains, and each C. is again divided into branches from the main stock, who...smaller branches of fifty or sixty men, who deduce their origin from their particular chiefs, and rely upon them as their more immediate protectors and defenders.... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - Civilization, Aryan - 1878 - 512 pages
...describes them : — " The Highlanders are divided into tribes or clans under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan again divided into branches from the...fifty or sixty men, who deduce their original from particular chieftains, and rely upon them as their more immediate protectors and defenders. Next to... | |
 | Anthologies - 1878 - 720 pages
...Highlanders, says : ' They are divided into tribes or clans under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan is again divided into branches from the main stock, who...their original from their particular chieftains.' Such a body seems to be the Joint Family well-known to the Hindoos, in which all the property was held... | |
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The Highlanders are divided into tribes or clans, under chiefs or chieftains, and each clan is again divided into branches from the main stock, who have chieftains over them. These are subdivided into smaller branches of fifty or sixty men, who deduce... 
