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CHAPTER IV.
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The Celt's relations to the Unseen, and what thence comes
upo7i him, air: joy and sadness, plague and deliverance
come upon him : the Powers Above, . . . .42.
CHAPTER V.
The Celt and his commoner mental and bodily states — his
whims, lighter impulses, and indulgences, which are
mostly either his own choice, or in his own control : he
is upon them : the inverted use of air, on : curious
reflection of this idiom in Highland English, . . 50
CHAPTER VI.
The Gael's relation to his aptitudes and proclivities : air,
on, continued, . . . . . . . . 56
CHAPTER VII.
Settled ownership, as distinguished from mere arbitrary, or
conditional possession : use of le, with, . . • 59-
CHAPTER VIII.
Curious use of ayin, in : Gaelic abhors the abstract : the
essential principle of this idiom, 65
CHAPTER IX.
Leading varieties of the idiom last refeiTcd to : the Gael's
relations to his trade or profession, to his outward
attitudes, to his personal character, and to personal
accidents of extraction, sex, country, and the like : the
abstract made concrete to the subject : the condition to
which persons or things tend : word-history too repeats
itself, 73-