The works of Samuel Johnson, 9권G. Offor, 1818 |
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... seen whatever this ancient city offered to our curiosity , we left it with good wishes , having reason to be highly pleased with the attention that was paid us . But whoever surveys the world must see many things that give him pain ...
... seen whatever this ancient city offered to our curiosity , we left it with good wishes , having reason to be highly pleased with the attention that was paid us . But whoever surveys the world must see many things that give him pain ...
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... seen a single tree , which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century . Now and then about a gentleman's house stands a small plantation , which , in Scotch , is called a policy , but of these there are few , and ...
... seen a single tree , which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century . Now and then about a gentleman's house stands a small plantation , which , in Scotch , is called a policy , but of these there are few , and ...
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... seen the remains of the cathedral . It has the appearance of a town in decay , having been situated , in times when commerce was yet unstudied , with very little attention to the commodiousness of the harbour . New Aberdeen has all the ...
... seen the remains of the cathedral . It has the appearance of a town in decay , having been situated , in times when commerce was yet unstudied , with very little attention to the commodiousness of the harbour . New Aberdeen has all the ...
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... seen two places upon the coast , which she rightly con- sidered as worthy of curiosity , Dun Buy , and the Buller of Buchan , to which Mr. Boyd very kindly con- ducted us . Dun Buy , which in Erse is said to signify the Yellow Rock , is ...
... seen two places upon the coast , which she rightly con- sidered as worthy of curiosity , Dun Buy , and the Buller of Buchan , to which Mr. Boyd very kindly con- ducted us . Dun Buy , which in Erse is said to signify the Yellow Rock , is ...
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... seen only one tree not younger than myself . BANFF . We dined this day at the house of Mr. Frazer of Streichon , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a Druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of ...
... seen only one tree not younger than myself . BANFF . We dined this day at the house of Mr. Frazer of Streichon , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a Druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of ...
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139 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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.