The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.L. Hansard, 1806 |
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... land , and after having long toiled to approach them , find , instead of re- pose and harbours , new storms of objection , and fluctuations of uncertainty . We are next entertained with Pope's alleviations of those evils which we are ...
... land , and after having long toiled to approach them , find , instead of re- pose and harbours , new storms of objection , and fluctuations of uncertainty . We are next entertained with Pope's alleviations of those evils which we are ...
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... clean . is a handsome fabrick with a por- went to view the English chapel , 1 church , clean to a degree un- her part of Scotland , with com- land possession has long been secure , and inheri tance. ESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 143 Montrose.
... clean . is a handsome fabrick with a por- went to view the English chapel , 1 church , clean to a degree un- her part of Scotland , with com- land possession has long been secure , and inheri tance. ESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 143 Montrose.
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Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. land possession has long been secure , and inheri tance regular , yet it may be doubted whether be- fore the Union any man between Edinburgh and England had ever set a tree . Of this improvidence no other ...
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. land possession has long been secure , and inheri tance regular , yet it may be doubted whether be- fore the Union any man between Edinburgh and England had ever set a tree . Of this improvidence no other ...
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... land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of innu- merable sea - fowls , which in the spring choose this place as convenient for incubation , and have their eggs and their young taken in ...
... land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has its name and its colour from the dung of innu- merable sea - fowls , which in the spring choose this place as convenient for incubation , and have their eggs and their young taken in ...
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... land , stationed a garrison , as at the boundary of the Highlands . The soldiers seem to have incorpo- rated afterwards with the inhabitants , and to have peopled the place with an English race ; for the language of this town has been ...
... land , stationed a garrison , as at the boundary of the Highlands . The soldiers seem to have incorpo- rated afterwards with the inhabitants , and to have peopled the place with an English race ; for the language of this town has been ...
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afford ancient appearance Arthur Johnston better Boethius Boswell castle cattle chief church CITATION clan commonly considered curiosity danger delight diligence domestick Dunvegan Earse easily elegant English equal Essay evil expected Fort Augustus Francis Peck gentleman give ground happiness Hebrides Highlands honour hope human Idler imperfection Inch Kenneth infinite inhabitants inquire Interpolation Inverness islands JOHN MILTON knowledge labour ladies laird land lately learned less live lower Holloway Macdonald Maclean Macleod magnificence means mihi miles Milton mind misery mountains Mull nation nature necessary neral never once pain PARADISE LOST passage passed perhaps piness pleasure poverty publick Raasay reason rich rock Scotland seems seldom shew Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes standing stone subordination suffered supposed sure tacksman Taisch tenants thing thought tion told travelled truth Ulva universal vultures whole
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317 ページ - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
317 ページ - ... dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.
118 ページ - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
72 ページ - ... in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties to the simplicity of...
177 ページ - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
69 ページ - Acorns, so Men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that Vultures may be fed. Others think they have observed something of contrivance and policy among these...
59 ページ - ... pleasures. But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide. I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixtysecond year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls. I had now nothing left but retirement ; and for retirement I never found a time, till disease forced me from public employment.
43 ページ - He that instructs must offer to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided ; he that pleases must offor new images to his reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his own state with that of others. • The greater part of travellers tell nothing, because their method of travelling supplies them with nothing to be told.
197 ページ - A man of the Hebrides, for of the women's diet I can give no account, as soon as he appears in the morning, swallows a glass of whisky; yet they are not a drunken race...
59 ページ - Such was my scheme, and such has been its consequence. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, I trifled away the years of improvement ; with a restless desire of seeing different countries, I have always resided in the same city ; with the highest expectation of connubial felicity, I have lived unmarried ; and with unalterable resolutions of contemplative retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdat.