The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. In Nine VolumesTalboys and Wheeler, 1825 |
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... laws of hospitality still give this license to a stranger . A hut is constructed with loose stones , ranged for the most part with some tendency to circularity . It must be placed where the wind cannot act upon it with violence ...
... laws of hospitality still give this license to a stranger . A hut is constructed with loose stones , ranged for the most part with some tendency to circularity . It must be placed where the wind cannot act upon it with violence ...
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... law , that if a robber was sheltered from justice , any man of the same clan might be taken in his place . This was a kind of irregular justice , which , though necessary in savage times , could hardly fail to end in a feud ; and a feud ...
... law , that if a robber was sheltered from justice , any man of the same clan might be taken in his place . This was a kind of irregular justice , which , though necessary in savage times , could hardly fail to end in a feud ; and a feud ...
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... laws , since the laws have been introduced into the Highlands , this disposition to thievery is very much repressed . Thirty years ago , no herd had ever been conducted through the mountains without paying tribute in the night to some ...
... laws , since the laws have been introduced into the Highlands , this disposition to thievery is very much repressed . Thirty years ago , no herd had ever been conducted through the mountains without paying tribute in the night to some ...
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... Law is nothing without power ; and the sentence of a distant court could not be easily executed , nor perhaps very safely promulgated , among men , ignorantly proud and habitually violent , un- connected with the general system , and ...
... Law is nothing without power ; and the sentence of a distant court could not be easily executed , nor perhaps very safely promulgated , among men , ignorantly proud and habitually violent , un- connected with the general system , and ...
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... laws , and calling each his followers to maintain the dignity of the clan , fought a formal battle , in which several considerable men fell on the side of Mackintosh , without a complete victory to either . This is said to have been the ...
... laws , and calling each his followers to maintain the dignity of the clan , fought a formal battle , in which several considerable men fell on the side of Mackintosh , without a complete victory to either . This is said to have been the ...
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