The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... reasonably be doubted . A war declared for the empty sound of an ancient title to a Magel- lanic rock , would raise the indignation of the earth • against us . These encroachers on the waste of FALKLAND'S ISLANDS . 123.
... reasonably be doubted . A war declared for the empty sound of an ancient title to a Magel- lanic rock , would raise the indignation of the earth • against us . These encroachers on the waste of FALKLAND'S ISLANDS . 123.
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... rock , under a stormy sky , we might have now been fight . ing and dying , had not our competitors been wiser than ourselves ; and those who are now courting the favour of the people by noisy professions of public spirit , would , while ...
... rock , under a stormy sky , we might have now been fight . ing and dying , had not our competitors been wiser than ourselves ; and those who are now courting the favour of the people by noisy professions of public spirit , would , while ...
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... rocks and deserts , and is persuaded to lose all claims of justice , and all sense of dignity , in compassion for a harmless people , who having worked hard for bread in a wild country , and obtained by the slow progression of manual ...
... rocks and deserts , and is persuaded to lose all claims of justice , and all sense of dignity , in compassion for a harmless people , who having worked hard for bread in a wild country , and obtained by the slow progression of manual ...
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... rock covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
... rock covered with a thin layer of earth , not wholly bare of grass , and very fertile of thistles . A small herd of cows grazes annually upon it in the summer . It seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation . We ...
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... rock , the foot of which is beaten by the waves . To walk round the house seemed impracti- cable . From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and when the WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 223 Slanes ...
... rock , the foot of which is beaten by the waves . To walk round the house seemed impracti- cable . From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway , and when the WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 223 Slanes ...
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391 ページ - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
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.
48 ページ - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
249 ページ - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
285 ページ - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
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.
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.
271 ページ - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
219 ページ - His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness. if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
177 ページ - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the 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...