The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1786 - 442 páginas |
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... best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I mean General Paoli ; who , after his great , though unfuccefsful , efforts to preferve the liber- ties of his country , has found an honourable afylum in Britain , where he has now lived ...
... best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I mean General Paoli ; who , after his great , though unfuccefsful , efforts to preferve the liber- ties of his country , has found an honourable afylum in Britain , where he has now lived ...
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... from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating this passage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of vitriol ! " " Offer my best compliments to him , and affure TO THE HEBRIDES . 3.
... from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating this passage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of vitriol ! " " Offer my best compliments to him , and affure TO THE HEBRIDES . 3.
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James Boswell. " Offer my best compliments to him , and affure " him that I fhall be happy to have the fatisfac- " tion of seeing him under my roof . ” 66 To Dr. Beattie I wrote , " The chief intention " of this letter is to inform you ...
James Boswell. " Offer my best compliments to him , and affure " him that I fhall be happy to have the fatisfac- " tion of seeing him under my roof . ” 66 To Dr. Beattie I wrote , " The chief intention " of this letter is to inform you ...
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... best days . He was quite in his element . All was literature and tafte , without any interruption . Lord Hailes , who is one of the best philologifts in Great Britain , who has written papers in the World , and a variety of other works ...
... best days . He was quite in his element . All was literature and tafte , without any interruption . Lord Hailes , who is one of the best philologifts in Great Britain , who has written papers in the World , and a variety of other works ...
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... best good man , with the worst natur'd mufe . " He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson , whose friendly par- tiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one , " whofe acutenefs would ...
... best good man , with the worst natur'd mufe . " He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson , whose friendly par- tiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one , " whofe acutenefs would ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: in large print James Boswell Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: in large print James Boswell Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: in large print James Boswell Vista previa limitada - 2023 |
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Página 101 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Página 19 - 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 353 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 37 - 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.
Página 48 - 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 342 - 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 ruins...
Página 317 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Página 15 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Página 7 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Página 173 - 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.