The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 страници |
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... it so abfurd as is generally fuppofed ; " For ( faid he ) it was only allowed when the quef- " tion was in ... she would give up our own bed - chamber to him and take a worfe . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
... it so abfurd as is generally fuppofed ; " For ( faid he ) it was only allowed when the quef- " tion was in ... she would give up our own bed - chamber to him and take a worfe . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
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... it is an advan- tage to which he is entitled . There must al- ways be fome advantage , on one fide or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents , than by chance . If lawyers were to undertake no caufes till they ...
... it is an advan- tage to which he is entitled . There must al- ways be fome advantage , on one fide or other ; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents , than by chance . If lawyers were to undertake no caufes till they ...
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James Boswell. that , to make it prevail , it must be generally fupported , though , in particulars , it may be wrong . He takes its faggot of principles , in which there are fewer rotten fticks than in the other , though fome rotten ...
James Boswell. that , to make it prevail , it must be generally fupported , though , in particulars , it may be wrong . He takes its faggot of principles , in which there are fewer rotten fticks than in the other , though fome rotten ...
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... it were fo , why has it ceafed ? Why don't we fee men thus produced around us now ? Why , at least , does it not keep pace , in fome meafure , with the progrefs of time ? If it ftops because there is now no need of it , then it is plain ...
... it were fo , why has it ceafed ? Why don't we fee men thus produced around us now ? Why , at least , does it not keep pace , in fome meafure , with the progrefs of time ? If it ftops because there is now no need of it , then it is plain ...
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... it L'ifle des Chevaux , and that it was probably " a fafer stable " than many others in his time . The fort , with an infcription on it , Maria Re 1564 , is ftrongly built . Dr. Johnson examined it with much attention . He stalked like ...
... it L'ifle des Chevaux , and that it was probably " a fafer stable " than many others in his time . The fort , with an infcription on it , Maria Re 1564 , is ftrongly built . Dr. Johnson examined it with much attention . He stalked like ...
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Страница 23 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Страница 418 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Страница 318 - This he said with good-humored English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr. Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day. It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and skulk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.
Страница 56 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Страница 318 - Prayer-book, I opened it at the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the epistle for which I read, " And be not drunk with wine, wherein there is excess.
Страница 156 - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Страница 18 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Страница 273 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Страница 213 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.