The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.Inskeep and Bradford, 1810 - 414 páginas |
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... Morning review of last night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at differ- ent times . Self - deception . 243 September 27. Dr. Johnson's ...
... Morning review of last night's intemperance . Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song . Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky . Different views of the same subject at differ- ent times . Self - deception . 243 September 27. Dr. Johnson's ...
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... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that to shew all respect to the Sage , she would give up our own bed - chamber to him , and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of ...
... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that to shew all respect to the Sage , she would give up our own bed - chamber to him , and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of ...
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... morning ; now we were . but barren . The professors seemed afraid to speak . Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . - Johnson . 66 " Why , sir , he has printed some of his works , and perhaps ...
... morning ; now we were . but barren . The professors seemed afraid to speak . Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . - Johnson . 66 " Why , sir , he has printed some of his works , and perhaps ...
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... morning , and break- fasted at Ellon . The landlady said to me , " Is not this the great Doctor , that is going about through the coun- try ? " — I said , " Yes . " — " Ay , ( said she , ) we heard of him , I made an errand into the ...
... morning , and break- fasted at Ellon . The landlady said to me , " Is not this the great Doctor , that is going about through the coun- try ? " — I said , " Yes . " — " Ay , ( said she , ) we heard of him , I made an errand into the ...
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... if his letters had been written by one of a more established name , they would have been thought very pretty letters . " This morning I introduced the subject of the origin of evil . - Johnson . " Moral evil is 96 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... if his letters had been written by one of a more established name , they would have been thought very pretty letters . " This morning I introduced the subject of the origin of evil . - Johnson . " Moral evil is 96 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
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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.