Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of Scotland |
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The distance of a calamity from the present time seems to preclude the mind from
contact or sympathy . Events long past are barely known ; they are not
considered . We read with as little emotion the violence of Knox and his followers
, as the ...
The distance of a calamity from the present time seems to preclude the mind from
contact or sympathy . Events long past are barely known ; they are not
considered . We read with as little emotion the violence of Knox and his followers
, as the ...
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We entered the arch , which the water had made , and found ourselves in a place
, which , though we could not think ourselves in danger , we could scarcely
survey without some recoil of the mind . The basin in which we floated was nearly
...
We entered the arch , which the water had made , and found ourselves in a place
, which , though we could not think ourselves in danger , we could scarcely
survey without some recoil of the mind . The basin in which we floated was nearly
...
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ledge as may justly be admired in men , who have no motive to study , but
generous curiosity , or what is still better , desire of usefulness ; with such
politeness as so narrow a circle of converse could not have supplied , but to
minds naturally ...
ledge as may justly be admired in men , who have no motive to study , but
generous curiosity , or what is still better , desire of usefulness ; with such
politeness as so narrow a circle of converse could not have supplied , but to
minds naturally ...
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The Second Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye , or by
the eye upon the mind , by which things distant or future are perceived , and seen
as if they were present . A man on a journey far from home falls from his horse ...
The Second Sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye , or by
the eye upon the mind , by which things distant or future are perceived , and seen
as if they were present . A man on a journey far from home falls from his horse ...
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We were always struggling with some obstruction or other , and our vexation was
not balanced by any gratification of the eye or mind . We were now long enough
acquainted with hills and heath to have lost the emotion that they once raised ...
We were always struggling with some obstruction or other , and our vexation was
not balanced by any gratification of the eye or mind . We were now long enough
acquainted with hills and heath to have lost the emotion that they once raised ...
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71 ページ - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
177 ページ - 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.
177 ページ - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
174 ページ - 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.
390 ページ - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
273 ページ - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
176 ページ - 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.
251 ページ - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
352 ページ - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.
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| 書籍名 | Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of Scotland The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D 第 第 8 巻 巻, Alexander Chalmers |
| 著者 | Samuel Johnson |
| 出版社 | Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
| 書籍の提供元 | オックスフォード大学 |
| デジタル化された日 | 2007年10月3日 |
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