The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 páginas |
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... several points of fimilarity between them ; learning , clearness of head , precifion of speech , and a love of research on many fubjects which people in general do not investigate . Foote paid Lord Monboddo the compliment of faying ...
... several points of fimilarity between them ; learning , clearness of head , precifion of speech , and a love of research on many fubjects which people in general do not investigate . Foote paid Lord Monboddo the compliment of faying ...
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... Several of the members wifhed to keep you out . Burke told me , he doubted if you was fit for it . But now you are in , none of them are forry . Burke fays , that you have fo much good humour naturally , it is fcarce a virtue ...
... Several of the members wifhed to keep you out . Burke told me , he doubted if you was fit for it . But now you are in , none of them are forry . Burke fays , that you have fo much good humour naturally , it is fcarce a virtue ...
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... several of his neighbours from it at dinner . One I * He is the worthy fon of a worthy father , the late Lord Strichen , one of our judges , to whofe kind notice I was much obliged . Lord Strichen was a man not only honest , but highly ...
... several of his neighbours from it at dinner . One I * He is the worthy fon of a worthy father , the late Lord Strichen , one of our judges , to whofe kind notice I was much obliged . Lord Strichen was a man not only honest , but highly ...
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... Several ladies , wishing to learn the kind of reading which the great and good Dr. Johnson esteemed most fit for a young woman , defired to know what book he had felected for this Highland nymph . " They never adverted ( said he ) that ...
... Several ladies , wishing to learn the kind of reading which the great and good Dr. Johnson esteemed most fit for a young woman , defired to know what book he had felected for this Highland nymph . " They never adverted ( said he ) that ...
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... several elegantly - bound books , and other marks of improved life . Soon afterwards a fidler appeared , and a little ball began . Rasay himself danced with as much spirit as any man , and Malcolm bounded like a roe . Sandie Macleod ...
... several elegantly - bound books , and other marks of improved life . Soon afterwards a fidler appeared , and a little ball began . Rasay himself danced with as much spirit as any man , and Malcolm bounded like a roe . Sandie Macleod ...
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Página 23 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 418 - 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...
Página 318 - This he said with good-humored English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr. Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day. It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and skulk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.
Página 56 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Página 318 - Prayer-book, I opened it at the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the epistle for which I read, " And be not drunk with wine, wherein there is excess.
Página 156 - 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 18 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Página 273 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Página 213 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.