The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen9G. Offor, 1818 |
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... poets of Scotland the next place to the elegant Buchanan . In the library I was shewn some curiosities ; a He- brew manuscript of exquisite penmanship , and a Latin translation of Aristotle's Politicks by Leonardus Areti- nus , written ...
... poets of Scotland the next place to the elegant Buchanan . In the library I was shewn some curiosities ; a He- brew manuscript of exquisite penmanship , and a Latin translation of Aristotle's Politicks by Leonardus Areti- nus , written ...
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... poet might exalt into riches . When we entered , we found an old woman boiling goat's flesh in a kettle . She spoke little English , but we had interpreters at hand , and she was willing enough to display her whole system of œconomy ...
... poet might exalt into riches . When we entered , we found an old woman boiling goat's flesh in a kettle . She spoke little English , but we had interpreters at hand , and she was willing enough to display her whole system of œconomy ...
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... with my increase of knowledge ; for I had not then learned how to estimate the narration of a Highlander . They said that a great family had a bard and a sena- chi , who were the poet and historian of the L 2 WESTERN ISLANDS , & C . 103.
... with my increase of knowledge ; for I had not then learned how to estimate the narration of a Highlander . They said that a great family had a bard and a sena- chi , who were the poet and historian of the L 2 WESTERN ISLANDS , & C . 103.
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... poet . Another conversation , indeed , informed me , that the same man was both bard and senachi . This variation discouraged me ; but as the practice might be different in different times , or at the same time in different fa- milies ...
... poet . Another conversation , indeed , informed me , that the same man was both bard and senachi . This variation discouraged me ; but as the practice might be different in different times , or at the same time in different fa- milies ...
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... poets , who , hearing the Bible read at church , is said to have turned the sacred history into verse . heard part of a dialogue composed by him , translated by a young lady in Mull , and thought it had more meaning than I expected from ...
... poets , who , hearing the Bible read at church , is said to have turned the sacred history into verse . heard part of a dialogue composed by him , translated by a young lady in Mull , and thought it had more meaning than I expected from ...
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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.