 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 страници
...vifiting the wall of China. I catched it for the moment, and faid I really believed I fhould go and fee the wall of China had I not children, of whom it was my duty to take care. " Sir, (faid he,) by doing fo, you would do what would be of importance in raifing your children to eminence.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 страници
...mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses. He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries ; that...dignity of character was derived from it. He expressed a par1icular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China. I catched it for the moment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 страници
...to retire from business, parted With his lease and TRAVELLING. • JOHNSON once talked with uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries; that...enlarged by it, and that an acquisition, of dignity of'character was derived from it. He expressed a particular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 страници
...them, and said they were Smith's best verses. He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling intn distant Countries; that the mind was enlarged by it, and that an acquisition of dignity of character wa* derived from it. He expressed a particular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 страници
...;-|- we • Mem. of the Wernerinn Nat. Hist. Society, vol. u. Pari II. p. 332. ' ' He (Dr. Johnson) expressed a particular enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China. I catched at it for the moment, and • ii.i I really believed I should go ami •re the wall of China had I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 страници
...see a fair town.' " At a period long subsequent to this, he tells us, " He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries ; that...really believed I should go and see the wall of China, tad I not children, of whom it was my duty to take care. ' Sir,' said he, ' by doing so, you would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 страници
...mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses. He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries ; that...wall of China. I catched it for the moment, and said, 1 really believed I should go and see the wall of China had I not children, of whom it was my duty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 страници
...visiting the wall of China. 1 cali lied it for the moment, and said, Г really believed I should go und see the wall of China had I not children, of whom it was my duty to take care. Sir, (»aid he,) by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 страници
...mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses. He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries ; that...enthusiasm with respect to visiting the wall of China. I * |_I have in vain examined Dodsley's Collection, for the verses her» referred to ; nor has the name... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 страници
...published Travels through the East, is usually called the great traveller. KJ He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into distant countries; that...moment, and said I really believed I should go and seethe wall of China, had I not children, of whom it was my duty to take care. " Sir (said he), by... | |
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Smith's Latin verses on Pococke, the great traveller,2 were mentioned. He repeated some of them, and said they were Smith's best verses. He talked with an tmcommon animation of travelling into distant countries ; that the mind was enlarged by it, and... 
