The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 страници |
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... conversation , literary anecdotes , and opinions of men and books : With an authentick account of The distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II . in the year 1746 The 6th ed.rev.and cor . LONDON T.CADELL AND W.DAVIES 1813 ...
... conversation , literary anecdotes , and opinions of men and books : With an authentick account of The distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II . in the year 1746 The 6th ed.rev.and cor . LONDON T.CADELL AND W.DAVIES 1813 ...
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... . 34 .39 Literature and patronage . compared . Change of Value of money . St. Writing and conversation manners . The union . Andrews and John Knox . Retirement from the with world . Dinner with the Professors , Question concerning.
... . 34 .39 Literature and patronage . compared . Change of Value of money . St. Writing and conversation manners . The union . Andrews and John Knox . Retirement from the with world . Dinner with the Professors , Question concerning.
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... conversation ; for he owned he sometimes talked for victory ; he was too conscientious to make errour permanent and pernicious , by deliberately writing it . He was- conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to ...
... conversation ; for he owned he sometimes talked for victory ; he was too conscientious to make errour permanent and pernicious , by deliberately writing it . He was- conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to ...
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... conversation . * His person was large , robust , I may say approaching to the gigantick , and grown unwieldy from corpulency . His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ancient statue , but some- what disfigured by the scars of ...
... conversation . * His person was large , robust , I may say approaching to the gigantick , and grown unwieldy from corpulency . His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ancient statue , but some- what disfigured by the scars of ...
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... conversation , he never gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involuntary . I still however think , that these gestures were involuntary ; for surely had not that been the case , he would have restrained them in the ...
... conversation , he never gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involuntary . I still however think , that these gestures were involuntary ; for surely had not that been the case , he would have restrained them in the ...
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Aberdeen afterwards ancient appearance asked Auchinleck believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle church conversation dined dinner Duke Duke of Argyle Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird laughed Lawrence Kirk learning lived Lochbuy looked Lord Lord Monboddo lordship M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen main land manner mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed OCTOBER opinion pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect remarkable sail Samuel Johnson Scotland servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took Ulva vessel walked Whig wind wish write young
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Страница 28 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. ' Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it.
Страница 117 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Страница 9 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Страница 42 - Then, sir, let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known...
Страница 26 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Страница 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Страница 67 - But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars.
Страница 232 - In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When...
Страница 225 - 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. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that is to say, if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras...