The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.Inskeep and Bradford, 1810 - 414 páginas |
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... mind expand ; The master rises by the pupil's hand : We love the writer , praise his happy vein , Grac'd with the naiveté of the sage Montagne . Hence , not alone , are brighter parts display'd , But e'en the specks of character ...
... mind expand ; The master rises by the pupil's hand : We love the writer , praise his happy vein , Grac'd with the naiveté of the sage Montagne . Hence , not alone , are brighter parts display'd , But e'en the specks of character ...
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... mind . Sin- gular custom in the islands of Col and Otaheité . Further eulo- gium on young Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign countries . 2 314 October 19. Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evidence . La ...
... mind . Sin- gular custom in the islands of Col and Otaheité . Further eulo- gium on young Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign countries . 2 314 October 19. Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evidence . La ...
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... mind how far attainable . 368 November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy . 371 November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr. Johnson in collision . ib . November 7. Dr. Johnson's uniform piety . His dislike of pres- byterian ...
... mind how far attainable . 368 November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy . 371 November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr. Johnson in collision . ib . November 7. Dr. Johnson's uniform piety . His dislike of pres- byterian ...
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... MIND , THAT HIS EXTEM- PORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOUR TO HIS PREME- DITATED WRITINGS . MANY , NO DOUBT , HAD READ AS MUCH , AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE ; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGEMENT AS HE DID . BAKER'S ...
... MIND , THAT HIS EXTEM- PORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOUR TO HIS PREME- DITATED WRITINGS . MANY , NO DOUBT , HAD READ AS MUCH , AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE ; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGEMENT AS HE DID . BAKER'S ...
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... minds bright enough to reflect it . He had disappointed my expectation so long , that I began to despair ; but in spring , 1773 , he talked of coming to Scotland that year with so much firmness , that I hoped he was at last in earnest ...
... minds bright enough to reflect it . He had disappointed my expectation so long , that I began to despair ; but in spring , 1773 , he talked of coming to Scotland that year with so much firmness , that I hoped he was at last in earnest ...
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Página 322 - 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...
Página 332 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Página 186 - Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following : ' The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Página 24 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 194 - I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 348 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice...
Página 83 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Página 186 - ... constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. " Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination.
Página 121 - The day was calm, the air was 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.
Página 34 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.