The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1811 |
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... wish was to have passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
... wish was to have passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
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... promp- ted to another performance , let him consider whether he is about to disburthen his mind , or employ his fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a subject , I should wish that he would solve this question , Why 28 REVIEW OF ...
... promp- ted to another performance , let him consider whether he is about to disburthen his mind , or employ his fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a subject , I should wish that he would solve this question , Why 28 REVIEW OF ...
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Samuel Johnson. should wish that he would solve this question , Why he that has nothing to write , should desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may ...
Samuel Johnson. should wish that he would solve this question , Why he that has nothing to write , should desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may ...
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... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He offers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know why they act ...
... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He offers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know why they act ...
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... wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and venison , and is re- solved as long as he lives to be against the govern- ment . The petition is then handed from town to town , and from house to house , and wherever it comes the ...
... wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and venison , and is re- solved as long as he lives to be against the govern- ment . The petition is then handed from town to town , and from house to house , and wherever it comes the ...
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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.