The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen9G. Offor, 1818 |
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... nature soon at an end the efficacy of outcry and perseverance is permanent and certain . The road from Montrose exhibited a continuation of the same appearances . The country is still naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields so ...
... nature soon at an end the efficacy of outcry and perseverance is permanent and certain . The road from Montrose exhibited a continuation of the same appearances . The country is still naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields so ...
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... natural product of royal government , is diffused from the laird through the whole clan . But they are not com- monly dexterous ; their narrowness of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little ...
... natural product of royal government , is diffused from the laird through the whole clan . But they are not com- monly dexterous ; their narrowness of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little ...
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... nature , the first question is , whether the fact be justly stated . That which is strange is de- lightful , and a pleasing error is not willingly detected . Accuracy of narration is not very common , and there are few so rigidly ...
... nature , the first question is , whether the fact be justly stated . That which is strange is de- lightful , and a pleasing error is not willingly detected . Accuracy of narration is not very common , and there are few so rigidly ...
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... Natural philosophy is now one of the favour- ite studies of the Scottish nation , and Lough Ness well deserves to be diligently examined . The road on which we travelled , and which was it- self a source of entertainment , is made along ...
... Natural philosophy is now one of the favour- ite studies of the Scottish nation , and Lough Ness well deserves to be diligently examined . The road on which we travelled , and which was it- self a source of entertainment , is made along ...
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... nature from her care , and disin- herited of her favours , left in its original elemental state , or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation . It will very readily occur , that this uniformity of barrenness can afford ...
... nature from her care , and disin- herited of her favours , left in its original elemental state , or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation . It will very readily occur , that this uniformity of barrenness can afford ...
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Página 139 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Página 267 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Página 268 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Página 35 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air 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 269 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Página 289 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Página 45 - These, however, are deficiencies in story, for which no man is now to be censured. It were enough, if what there is yet opportunity of examining were accurately inspected, and justly represented; but such is the laxity of Highland conversation, that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense, and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation, knows less as he hears more.
Página 234 - Let us abstract from his wit the vivacity of insolence, and withdraw from his efficacy the sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise?
Página 109 - They have inquired and considered little, and do not always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others; and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false.
Página 43 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.