The works of Samuel Johnson, Band 9G. Offor, 1818 |
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... colonies . That they may not fly from the increase of rent , I know not whether the general good does not require that the landlords be , for a time , re- strained in their demands , and kept quiet by pensions proportionate to their ...
... colonies . That they may not fly from the increase of rent , I know not whether the general good does not require that the landlords be , for a time , re- strained in their demands , and kept quiet by pensions proportionate to their ...
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... colonies , indeed , have been established more peaceably than others . The utmost extremity of wrong has not always been practised ; but those that have set- tled in the new world , on the fairest terms , have no other merit than that ...
... colonies , indeed , have been established more peaceably than others . The utmost extremity of wrong has not always been practised ; but those that have set- tled in the new world , on the fairest terms , have no other merit than that ...
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... colonies , inflamed with immemorial rivalry , and placed out of the superintendence of the mother nations , were not likely to be long at rest . Some opposition was al- ways going forward , some mischief was every day done or meditated ...
... colonies , inflamed with immemorial rivalry , and placed out of the superintendence of the mother nations , were not likely to be long at rest . Some opposition was al- ways going forward , some mischief was every day done or meditated ...
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... colonies , if in no other part of their attempt , they had acted against the general intention , if not against the literal terms of treaties , can scarcely be denied ; for it never can be supposed that we intended to be enclosed be ...
... colonies , if in no other part of their attempt , they had acted against the general intention , if not against the literal terms of treaties , can scarcely be denied ; for it never can be supposed that we intended to be enclosed be ...
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... colonies , and trans- mitted to our ministers at Paris , where good words were sometimes given us , and the practices of the American commanders were sometimes disowned , but no redress was ever obtained , nor is it probable that any ...
... colonies , and trans- mitted to our ministers at Paris , where good words were sometimes given us , and the practices of the American commanders were sometimes disowned , but no redress was ever obtained , nor is it probable that any ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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,...
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.