The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... travelled in their defence . When it is urged that they will shoot up like the hydra , he naturally considers how the hydra was destroyed . Nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits . A commercial people , however ...
... travelled in their defence . When it is urged that they will shoot up like the hydra , he naturally considers how the hydra was destroyed . Nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits . A commercial people , however ...
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... travelled on with the gentle pace of a Scotch driver , who having no rivals in ex- pedition , neither gives himself nor his horses unne- cessary trouble . We did not affect the impatience we did not feel , but were satisfied with the ...
... travelled on with the gentle pace of a Scotch driver , who having no rivals in ex- pedition , neither gives himself nor his horses unne- cessary trouble . We did not affect the impatience we did not feel , but were satisfied with the ...
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... travelled over a tract of ground near the sea , which not long ago , suffered a very uncommon and unexpected calamity . The sand of the shore was raised by a tempest in such quantities , and carried to such a distance , that an estate ...
... travelled over a tract of ground near the sea , which not long ago , suffered a very uncommon and unexpected calamity . The sand of the shore was raised by a tempest in such quantities , and carried to such a distance , that an estate ...
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... travelled two hundred miles in Scotland , and seen only one tree not younger than myself . BANFF . We dined this day at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who showed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle ...
... travelled two hundred miles in Scotland , and seen only one tree not younger than myself . BANFF . We dined this day at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who showed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle ...
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... travelled on not interrupted by promises of kingdoms , and came to Nairn , a royal burgh , which , if once it flourished , is now in a state of miserable decay ; but I WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 231 Forres Calder Fort George.
... travelled on not interrupted by promises of kingdoms , and came to Nairn , a royal burgh , which , if once it flourished , is now in a state of miserable decay ; but I WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 231 Forres Calder Fort George.
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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...