The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears so little to have deserved his assistance ; an assistance which I am persuaded would never have been communicated , had there been the least suspicion of those facts ...
... longer allow one to plume himself with his feathers , who appears so little to have deserved his assistance ; an assistance which I am persuaded would never have been communicated , had there been the least suspicion of those facts ...
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... longer . In an age in which statues are erected to the honour of this great writer ; in which his effigy has been diffused on medals , and his work propagated by translations , and illustrated by com- mentaries ; in an age which ...
... longer . In an age in which statues are erected to the honour of this great writer ; in which his effigy has been diffused on medals , and his work propagated by translations , and illustrated by com- mentaries ; in an age which ...
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... longer men ; and whatever beings had occupied our stations in the universal system , they must have been liable to the same inconveniences . " In all this there is nothing that can silence the inquiries of curiosity , or calm the ...
... longer men ; and whatever beings had occupied our stations in the universal system , they must have been liable to the same inconveniences . " In all this there is nothing that can silence the inquiries of curiosity , or calm the ...
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... longer legislative . · If the possibility of abuse be an argument against authority , no authority ever can be established ; if the actual abuse destroys its legality , there is no legal government now in the world . This power , which ...
... longer legislative . · If the possibility of abuse be an argument against authority , no authority ever can be established ; if the actual abuse destroys its legality , there is no legal government now in the world . This power , which ...
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... those only are legally given , which are given for a legal can- didate . It remains then to be discussed , whether a man expelled can be so disqualified by a vote of the house , as that he shall be no longer eligible THE FALSE ALARM . 73.
... those only are legally given , which are given for a legal can- didate . It remains then to be discussed , whether a man expelled can be so disqualified by a vote of the house , as that he shall be no longer eligible THE FALSE ALARM . 73.
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Стр. 391 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Стр. 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Стр. 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Стр. 249 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Стр. 285 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
Стр. 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Стр. 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Стр. 271 - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
Стр. 219 - His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness. if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Стр. 177 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members...