Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of Scotland |
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The possession of this place is , according to Mr . Byron ' s representation , no
despicable acquisition . He conceived the island to be six or seven hundred
miles round , and represented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if
that ...
The possession of this place is , according to Mr . Byron ' s representation , no
despicable acquisition . He conceived the island to be six or seven hundred
miles round , and represented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if
that ...
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... than it was , or resolving to trust nothing to chance , or considering that , as
their force was greater , there was less danger of bloodshed , came with a power
that made resistance ridiculous , and at once demanded and obtained
possession .
... than it was , or resolving to trust nothing to chance , or considering that , as
their force was greater , there was less danger of bloodshed , came with a power
that made resistance ridiculous , and at once demanded and obtained
possession .
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An injury is acknowledged by the reception of Lord Rochford ' s paper , who twice
mentions the word injury and twice the word satisfaction . The Spaniards have
stipulated that the grant of possession shall not preclude the question of prior ...
An injury is acknowledged by the reception of Lord Rochford ' s paper , who twice
mentions the word injury and twice the word satisfaction . The Spaniards have
stipulated that the grant of possession shall not preclude the question of prior ...
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We are the acknowledged descendants of the earliest inhabitants of Britain , of
men , who before the time of history , took possession of the island de solate and
waste , and therefore open to the first oc - . cupants . Of this descent , our ...
We are the acknowledged descendants of the earliest inhabitants of Britain , of
men , who before the time of history , took possession of the island de solate and
waste , and therefore open to the first oc - . cupants . Of this descent , our ...
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For that negligence some excuse might be drawn from an unsettled state of life ,
and the instability of property ; but in Scotland possession has long been secure ,
and inheritance regular , yet it may be doubted whether before the Union any ...
For that negligence some excuse might be drawn from an unsettled state of life ,
and the instability of property ; but in Scotland possession has long been secure ,
and inheritance regular , yet it may be doubted whether before the Union any ...
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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.
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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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