The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.Inskeep and Bradford, 1810 - 414 Seiten |
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... lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect ; and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me . The friends of Dr. Johnson can best judge ...
... lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect ; and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me . The friends of Dr. Johnson can best judge ...
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... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a most worthy man now ...
... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a most worthy man now ...
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... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But ( said I ) how much better are you than your books ! " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But ( said I ) how much better are you than your books ! " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
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... lived twenty years , on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a Club , in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in ...
... lived twenty years , on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a Club , in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in ...
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... lived , and in which David Rizzio was mur- dered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I overheard him repeating here , in a kind of muttering 28 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... lived , and in which David Rizzio was mur- dered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I overheard him repeating here , in a kind of muttering 28 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
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Seite 322 - 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...
Seite 332 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Seite 186 - Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following : ' The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Seite 24 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Seite 194 - I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Seite 348 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice...
Seite 83 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Seite 186 - ... constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. " Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination.
Seite 121 - The day was calm, the air was 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.
Seite 34 - 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.