The works of Samuel Johnson, 第 9 巻G. Offor, 1818 |
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... carried away the stones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations may be still traced , and a small part of the wall is standing , appears to have been a spacious and majestick build- ing , not ...
... carried away the stones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations may be still traced , and a small part of the wall is standing , appears to have been a spacious and majestick build- ing , not ...
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... carried to such a distance , that an estate was overwhelmed and lost . Such and so hopeless was the barrenness super- induced , that the owner , when he was required to pay the usual tax , desired rather to resign the ground . SLANES ...
... carried to such a distance , that an estate was overwhelmed and lost . Such and so hopeless was the barrenness super- induced , that the owner , when he was required to pay the usual tax , desired rather to resign the ground . SLANES ...
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... carried , and are never to be found . The wealth of mountains is cattle , which , while the men stand in the passes , the women drive away . Such lands at last cannot repay the ex- pense of conquest , and therefore perhaps have not been ...
... carried , and are never to be found . The wealth of mountains is cattle , which , while the men stand in the passes , the women drive away . Such lands at last cannot repay the ex- pense of conquest , and therefore perhaps have not been ...
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... carried their weapons to visits , and to church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly plunder their neighbours , for their ...
... carried their weapons to visits , and to church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly plunder their neighbours , for their ...
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... carrying the natives away to America . In coasting Sky , we passed by the cavern in which it was the custom , as Martin relates , to catch birds in the night , by making a fire at the entrance . This prac- tice is disused ; for the ...
... carrying the natives away to America . In coasting Sky , we passed by the cavern in which it was the custom , as Martin relates , to catch birds in the night , by making a fire at the entrance . This prac- tice is disused ; for the ...
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139 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.
267 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.
268 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.
35 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.
269 ページ - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, 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 ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
289 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?
45 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.
234 ページ - Let us abstract from his wit the vivacity of insolence, and withdraw from his efficacy the sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise?
109 ページ - They have inquired and considered little, and do not 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.
43 ページ - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.