THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D1892 |
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... Land on Icolmkill 287 211. Sketch of the ruins at Icolmkill — Influence of solemn scenes of piety — Feudal authority in the extreme^ — Return to Mull 291 21. Pulteney— Pilt— Walpole— Mr. Wilkes— English and Page Jewish history compared ...
... Land on Icolmkill 287 211. Sketch of the ruins at Icolmkill — Influence of solemn scenes of piety — Feudal authority in the extreme^ — Return to Mull 291 21. Pulteney— Pilt— Walpole— Mr. Wilkes— English and Page Jewish history compared ...
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... land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is add a brief description of the isles of Orkney and Schet- land. By M. Martin, Gent London. 1703 ...
... land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is add a brief description of the isles of Orkney and Schet- land. By M. Martin, Gent London. 1703 ...
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... Land a large English oak stick. Let me not be censured for mentioning such minute particulars : every thing relative to so great a man is worth observing. I remember Dr. Adam Smith, in his rhetorical lectures at Glasgow,2 told us he was ...
... Land a large English oak stick. Let me not be censured for mentioning such minute particulars : every thing relative to so great a man is worth observing. I remember Dr. Adam Smith, in his rhetorical lectures at Glasgow,2 told us he was ...
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... land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay." The truth is, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, he allowed himself to look upon all ...
... land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay." The truth is, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, he allowed himself to look upon all ...
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... land. I, at first, thought the appellation very inappropriate, and that Unlucky would have been better, for Dr. Johnson had a mind to have thrown the waiter, as well as the lemonade, out of the window.'' — Craker. 2 The house had been ...
... land. I, at first, thought the appellation very inappropriate, and that Unlucky would have been better, for Dr. Johnson had a mind to have thrown the waiter, as well as the lemonade, out of the window.'' — Craker. 2 The house had been ...
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Seite 66 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two.
Seite 437 - Death by the Ancients. Translated by EC Beasley and Helen Zimmern. Edited by Edward Bell, MA With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. y- 6d. LILLY'S Introduction to Astrology.
Seite 439 - History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles. Translated by JE Ryland. 2 vols. 3*. 6d. each. Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
Seite 77 - ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Seite 64 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Seite 91 - 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.
Seite 429 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert ; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal; and a Melange.
Seite 439 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM Twenty-four Portraits 6s. Nicolini's History of the Jesuits: their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs. Fine Portraits of Loyola, Laines, Xavier, Borgia, Acquaviva, Pere la Cliaise, and Pope h'anganclli.
Seite 423 - APPIAN'S Roman History. Translated by Horace White, MA, LL.D. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols. 6s. each.
Seite 431 - FLORENCE of WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History, from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.