The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.T. Cadwell and W. Davies, 1807 - 460 страници |
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... Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's History of his own Times . Difference between dedications and histories ...... 291 October 5. People may come to do any thing by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean . Bayle . - Leibnitz ...
... Nature of sea - sickness . Burnet's History of his own Times . Difference between dedications and histories ...... 291 October 5. People may come to do any thing by talking of it . The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean . Bayle . - Leibnitz ...
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... natural to man . 408 SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the manner in which Dr. Johnson spent his time from November 12 to No- vember 21. Lord Mansfield , Mr. Richardson . The private life of an English Judge . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of Dr ...
... natural to man . 408 SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the manner in which Dr. Johnson spent his time from November 12 to No- vember 21. Lord Mansfield , Mr. Richardson . The private life of an English Judge . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of Dr ...
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... nature in many parts " of this country : he will meet with many persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . " I wish he would make the experiment . He some- " times cracks ...
... nature in many parts " of this country : he will meet with many persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . " I wish he would make the experiment . He some- " times cracks ...
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... nature of that distemper called St. Vitus's dance . He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes , with twisted - hair - buttons of the same colour , a large bushy greyish wig , a plain shirt , black worsted stockings , and silver buckles ...
... nature of that distemper called St. Vitus's dance . He wore a full suit of plain brown clothes , with twisted - hair - buttons of the same colour , a large bushy greyish wig , a plain shirt , black worsted stockings , and silver buckles ...
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James Boswell. to him ; which was a proof , from simple nature , that his figure was not horrid . Her fondness for him endeared her still more to me , and I declared she should have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . We talked ...
James Boswell. to him ; which was a proof , from simple nature , that his figure was not horrid . Her fondness for him endeared her still more to me , and I declared she should have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . We talked ...
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afterwards ancient appeared asked Auchinleck believe better boat Boswell breakfast called castle church conversation Court of Session DEAR SIR 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 Journal journey Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird learned lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Monboddo M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed opinion passed pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect sail Samuel Johnson Scotland second sight servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought tion Tobermorie told took Tour walked Whig wish write young
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Страница 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Страница 357 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Страница 18 - 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 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 ;" — he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his mission was introduced, and attested ; a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and...
Страница 87 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the...
Страница 105 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Страница 403 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects , and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Страница 129 - No, sir. It would be called so in a book ; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other.
Страница 244 - M'Pherson's Ossian to be more like the original than Pope's Homer. JOHNSON. " Well, sir, this is just what I always maintained. He has found names, and stories, and phrases, nay passages in old songs, and with them has blended his own compositions, and so made what he gives to the world as the translation of an ancient poem...