The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, 第 8 巻 |
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When a garrison was stationed at Port Egmont , it was necessary to try what
sustenance the ground could be by culture excited to produce . A garden was
prepared , but the plants that sprung up , withered away in immaturity . Some fir -
seeds ...
When a garrison was stationed at Port Egmont , it was necessary to try what
sustenance the ground could be by culture excited to produce . A garden was
prepared , but the plants that sprung up , withered away in immaturity . Some fir -
seeds ...
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The ground was neither uncultivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . ...
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 , and what I began to think
...
The ground was neither uncultivated nor unfruitful ; but it was still all arable . ...
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 , and what I began to think
...
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He refuses to pay the demand , and is ejected ; the ground is then let to a
stranger , who perhaps brings a larger stock , but who , taking the land at its full
price , treats with the laird upon equal terms , and considers him not as a chief but
as a ...
He refuses to pay the demand , and is ejected ; the ground is then let to a
stranger , who perhaps brings a larger stock , but who , taking the land at its full
price , treats with the laird upon equal terms , and considers him not as a chief but
as a ...
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Our boat could not be forced - very near the dry ground , and our Highlanders
carried us over the water . We were now treading that illustrious island , which
was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions , whence savage clans and
roving ...
Our boat could not be forced - very near the dry ground , and our Highlanders
carried us over the water . We were now treading that illustrious island , which
was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions , whence savage clans and
roving ...
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A large space of ground about these consecrated edifices is covered with grave -
stones , few of which have any inscription . He that surveys it , attended by an
insular antiquary , may be told where the kings of many nations are buried , and if
...
A large space of ground about these consecrated edifices is covered with grave -
stones , few of which have any inscription . He that surveys it , attended by an
insular antiquary , may be told where the kings of many nations are buried , and if
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162 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.
164 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.
188 ページ - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
243 ページ - These, however, are deficiencies in story, for which no man is now to be censured. It were enough, if what there is yet opportunity of examining were accurately inspected, and justly represented; but such is the laxity of Highland conversation, that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense, and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation, knows less as he hears more.
132 ページ - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
162 ページ - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.
260 ページ - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
121 ページ - ... outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood. The Supporters of the Bill of Rights feel no niceties of composition, nor dexterities of sophistry; their faculties are better proportioned to the bawl of Bellas, or barbarity of Beckford; but they are told that Junius is on their side, and they are therefore sure that Junius is infallible. Those who know not whither he would lead them, resolve to follow him; and those who cannot find his meaning, hope he means rebellion.
192 ページ - We found, that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers; and in the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.
250 ページ - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.