The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 páginas |
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... shall be the refult of legal argument . As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause , lawyers are a class of the community , who , by ftudy and experi- C ence , ence , have acquired the art and power of ar [ 17 ]
... shall be the refult of legal argument . As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause , lawyers are a class of the community , who , by ftudy and experi- C ence , ence , have acquired the art and power of ar [ 17 ]
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... shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who fays , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the Printer ( not a confidential letter to his friend , but a letter which is pub- lifhed with all formality ) : " Upon the ...
... shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who fays , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the Printer ( not a confidential letter to his friend , but a letter which is pub- lifhed with all formality ) : " Upon the ...
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... riches of Glafgow fhew how much there is in the weft ; and perhaps we shall find trade travel weftwards , on a great scale , as well as a fmall . • Ovid . Epift . E We We talked of a man's drowning himself . → Johnfon [ 49 ]
... riches of Glafgow fhew how much there is in the weft ; and perhaps we shall find trade travel weftwards , on a great scale , as well as a fmall . • Ovid . Epift . E We We talked of a man's drowning himself . → Johnfon [ 49 ]
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... shall be detected in a fraud , the confequence of which will be utter difgrace and expulfion from fociety ? - Johnson . " Then , Sir , let him go abroad to a distant country ; let him go to fome place where he is not known . Don't let ...
... shall be detected in a fraud , the confequence of which will be utter difgrace and expulfion from fociety ? - Johnson . " Then , Sir , let him go abroad to a distant country ; let him go to fome place where he is not known . Don't let ...
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... shall be damned : " They that believe shall have fuch an impreffion made upon their minds , diation of our Saviour . What Dr. Johnson now delivered , was but a temporary opinion ; for he afterwards was fully convinced of the ...
... shall be damned : " They that believe shall have fuch an impreffion made upon their minds , diation of our Saviour . What Dr. Johnson now delivered , was but a temporary opinion ; for he afterwards was fully convinced of the ...
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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.