The works of Samuel Johnson, 第 9 巻G. Offor, 1818 |
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... claim to immorta- lity as can be conferred by modern latinity , and per- haps a fairer than the instability of vernacular languages admits . We found , that by the interposition of some invisible friend , lodgings had been provided for ...
... claim to immorta- lity as can be conferred by modern latinity , and per- haps a fairer than the instability of vernacular languages admits . We found , that by the interposition of some invisible friend , lodgings had been provided for ...
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... claim to something more than sufferance ; for as her husband's name was Bruce , she is allied to royalty , and told Mr. Boswell , that when there were persons of quality in the place , she was distinguished by some notice ; that indeed ...
... claim to something more than sufferance ; for as her husband's name was Bruce , she is allied to royalty , and told Mr. Boswell , that when there were persons of quality in the place , she was distinguished by some notice ; that indeed ...
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... claim to that palm of wisdom , which the eastern philosopher , whom Alexan- der interrogated , gave to those beasts which live fur- thest from men . Near the way , by the waterside , we espied a cottage . This was the first Highland hut ...
... claim to that palm of wisdom , which the eastern philosopher , whom Alexan- der interrogated , gave to those beasts which live fur- thest from men . Near the way , by the waterside , we espied a cottage . This was the first Highland hut ...
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... claim of superiority irritates competition ; injuries will sometimes be done , and be more injuri- ously defended ; retaliation will sometimes be attempt- ed , and the debt exacted with too much interest . In the Highlands it was a law ...
... claim of superiority irritates competition ; injuries will sometimes be done , and be more injuri- ously defended ; retaliation will sometimes be attempt- ed , and the debt exacted with too much interest . In the Highlands it was a law ...
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... claim of lands between two powerful lairds was decided like a contest for dominion between sovereign powers . They drew their forces into the field , and right attended on the strongest . This was , in ruder times , the common practice ...
... claim of lands between two powerful lairds was decided like a contest for dominion between sovereign powers . They drew their forces into the field , and right attended on the strongest . This was , in ruder times , the common practice ...
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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.